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Country

represented Name Designation Institution

1 Australia Prof Katherine BELOV Pro-Vice-Chancellor Global

Engagement The University of Sydney

2 Austria Mag. Friedrich

FAULHAMMER Rector Donau-Universität Krems

3 Bangladesh Mr Mohamed Emran

HOSSAIN Member, Board of Trustees Daffodil International University

4 Bangladesh Prof Munaz Ahmed NOOR Vice-Chancellor Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur

Rahman Digital University

5 Belgium Ms Caroline HOLLELA Attachée Ministry of the French community

of Belgium (FWB)

6 Belgium Ms Nadia REYNDERS Coordinator ASEM Education

Secretariat Belgium

Ministry of Education, Flemish

Community

7 Belgium Dr Imran UDDIN Vice-Rector of Education and

Student Policies

Artevelde University College

Ghent

8 Brunei Darussalam Dr Siew Yean Joyce TEO Vice-President (Global Affairs) Universiti Brunei Darussalam

9 Bulgaria Prof Anastas GERDJIKOV Rector Sofia University St. Kliment

Ohridski

10 Cambodia Mr PHAL Des Vice-Rector Royal University of Phnom Penh

11 Cambodia Ms Emtotim SIENG Rector University of Battambang

12 China Prof James TANG Secretary-General University Grants Committee

Hong Kong

13 China Prof Sidong XIONG Rector Soochow University

14 China Prof Qiao ZHANG Director of International Office Soochow University

15 Croatia Prof Mislav BALKOVIC Dean Algebra University College

16 Cyprus Mr Stelios

CHRISTOPHIDES

Senior Education Officer,

Department of Higher and

Tertiary Education

Ministry of Education and Culture,

Cyprus

17 Cyprus Prof Theodore PANAYOTOU Director Cyprus International Institute of

Management

18 Cyprus Prof Panikkos

POUTZIOURIS Rector

University of Central Lancashire

Cyprus

19 Cyprus Prof Filippos POUYIOUTAS Rector University of Nicosia

20 Cyprus Prof Pantelis SKLIAS Rector Neapolis University Pafos

21 Czech Republic Dr Dalibor MIKULÁŠ Head of International

Relations Office Palacky University Olomouc

22 Czech Republic Dr Ondrej POKORNY Executive Advisor for Asia Palacky University Olomouc

23 Czech Republic Prof Jan ŠKRHA Vice-Rector for International

Affairs and Mobility Charles University

24 Denmark Prof Claus HOLM Head of School Aarhus University

25 Finland Ms Tuula ANTOLA Director of Economic and

Business Development City of Espoo

26 France Ms Joanne PAGÈZE Vice-president for

Internationalisation University of Bordeaux



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27 Germany Mr Michael HÖRIG Head of Division - Strategic

Planning

German Academic Exchange

Service (DAAD)

28 Germany Mr Sebastian SPERLICH Head of Section German Academic Exchange

Service (DAAD)

29 Hungary Dr Peter RADA Vice-Dean for Academic and

International Affairs

National University of Public

Service

30 India Prof Ashish BHARADWAJ Dean and Executive Director O.P. Jindal Global University

31 Indonesia Prof Nuhfil HANANI Rector University of Brawijaya

32 Indonesia Prof Djagal MARSENO Vice Rector Universitas Gadjah Mada

33 Indonesia Prof Panut MULYONO Rector Universitas Gadjah Mada

34 Indonesia Prof Ni Nyoman Tri

PUSPANINGSIH

Executive Director for

Airlangga Global Engagement Universitas Airlangga

35 Indonesia Dr Dina SEPTIANI University Expert Staff for

Global Engagement Universitas Airlangga

36 Indonesia Dr Fathul WAHID Rector Universitas Islam Indonesia

37 Ireland Prof Orla FEELY Vice President for Research,

Impact and Innovation University College Dublin

38 Ireland Prof David FITZPATRICK President Technological University Dublin

39 Ireland Dr Maria KIRRANE Sustainability Officer University College Cork

40 Ireland Dr Gerard MULLALLY Lecturer University College Cork

41 Ireland Prof John O'HALLORAN Deputy President & Registrar University College Cork

42 Italy Prof Antonio FIORI

Delegate for International

Relations with Asia and

Oceania

University of Bologna

43 Japan Dr Caroline Fern BENTON Vice President and Executive

Director for Global Affairs University of Tsukuba

44 Japan Dr Miki SUGIMURA

Vice President for Global

Academic Affairs, Professor of

Faculty of Human Sciences

Sophia University

45 Kazakhstan Prof Galimakir MUTANOV Rector al-Farabi KazNU

46 Kazakhstan Dr Loretta O'DONNELL Vice Provost for Academic

Affairs Nazarbayev University

47 Korea Prof KIM Sunhyuk

Professor of Political Science

and Former Vice President for


Korea University

48 Korea Prof MO Jongryn Director Hills Governance Center at Yonsei

University

49 Lao PDR Prof Houngphet

CHANTHAVONG Vice Rector National University of Laos

50 Lao PDR Dr Phonesavanh

THEPPHASOULITHONE Vice Rector Champasack University

51 Latvia Prof Inna STECENKO

Vice Rector for Research,

Head of doctoral programme

Regional Economy &

Economic Policy

Baltic International Academy

52 Latvia Dr Arturs ZEPS Vice-Rector for Strategic

Development Riga Technical University



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53 Lithuania Prof Dr Regina VALUTYTE Vice-Rector for Academic

Affairs Mykolas Romeris University

54 Malaysia Prof Tan Sri Dzulkifli

ABDUL RAZAK Rector

International Islamic University

Malaysia

55 Malaysia Prof Imran Ho ABDULLAH

Deputy Vice Chancellor

(Industry and Community

Partnerships)

Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

56 Malta Dr Alex RIZZO Deputy Principal for Research

& Innovation

Malta College of Arts, Science and

Technology

57 Malta Prof Carmen SAMMUT Pro Rector for Students and

Staff Affairs and Outreach University of Malta

58 Mongolia Prof Ochirbat BAATAR President Mongolian University of Science

and Technology

59 Mongolia Dr Ochirkhuyag

BAYANJARGAL Vice-President National University of Mongolia

60 Mongolia Prof Tsolmon JADAMBA President Mongolian National University of

Medical Sciences

61 Mongolia Ms Bolor JAMIYANDAGVA Government Official Ministry of Education, Culture,

Science and Sports of Mongolia

62 Myanmar Dr Kay Thwe HLAING Pro-Rector Yangon University of Education

63 Myanmar Prof Aung KYAW Pro-Rector University of Yangon

64 Myanmar Dr Aye Aye MYINT Rector Yangon University of Education

65 Myanmar Dr Saw PYONE NAING Rector Sagaing University of Education,

Ministry Of Education

66 Myanmar Dr Sint SOE Rector Mandalay Technological

University

67 Netherlands Dr Karl DITTRICH President EQAR

68 Netherlands Dr Catalina GOANTA Assistant Professor Maastricht University

69 Netherlands Prof Henk KUMMELING Rector Magnificus Utrecht University

70 New Zealand Prof Catherine MORAN Professor and Assistant Vice-

Chancellor, Academic University of Canterbury

71 Norway Dr Tor HALVORSEN Vice Rector for Global Affairs University of Bergen

72 Pakistan Dr Mujeeb-U-Ddin MEMON Vice-Chancellor Sindh Agriculture University

Tandojam

73 Philippines Prof Danilo CONCEPCION President University of the Philippines

74 Philippines Prof Melinda DELA PEÑA

BANDALARIA Chancellor and President

University of the Philippines Open

University, Asian Association of

Open Universities

75 Philippines Atty. Revsee A. ESCOBEDO Vice Minister Department of Education, The

Philippines

76 Philippines Dr Winston Conrad

PADOJINOG President University of Asia and the Pacific

77 Philippines Dr Alma Ruby C. TORIO Deputy Minister Department of Education, The

Philippines

78 Philippines Fr Jose Ramon VILLARIN President Ateneo de Manila University

79 Philippines Dr Roberto YAP President Xavier University - Ateneo de

Cagayan



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80 Poland Ambassador Prof Adam

JELONEK

Rector's Representative for

Foreign Affairs Jagiellonian University

81 Poland Prof Ewa TROJNAR Professor Jagiellonian University

82 Portugal Prof Maria de Lurdes

CORREIA FERNANDES

Vice-Rector for Education,

Academic Affairs and

International Cooperation

University of Porto

83 Romania Prof Ioan Vasile ABRUDAN Rector Transilvania University of Brasov

84 Romania Ms Ecaterina

ANDRONESCU Minister of National Education Romania

85 Romania Prof Sorin Mihai

CIMPEANU President, Rector

Romanian National Council of

Rectors; University of Agronomic

Sciences and Veterinary Medicine

86 Romania Mr Mihnea COSTOIU Rector University POLITEHNICA of

Bucharest

87 Romania Professor Coralia Adina

COTORACI Rector

Vasile Goldis Western University

of Arad

88 Romania Prof Adrian CURAJ

General Director, Former

Minister of Education,

Research and Innovation

Executive Agency for Higher

Education, Research,

Development and Innovation

Funding (UEFISCDI)

89 Romania Prof George DARIE Vice-Rector University POLITEHNICA of

Bucharest

90 Romania Ms Dora DAVID National Representative Erasmus Student Network

Romania

91 Romania Mr Stefan Marius

DEACONU Former President

National Alliance of Student

Organisations in Romania

(ANOSR)

92 Romania Ms Ligia DECA State Adviser Department of Education and

Research, Romania

93 Romania Mr Valentin FLOREA Secretary-General UN Youth Association of Romania

94 Romania Prof Ovidiu FOLCUT Rector Romanian-American University

95 Romania Prof Nicolae ISTUDOR Rector The Bucharest University of

Economic Studies

96 Romania Gheorghe MAGHERU Governor ASEF, Ambassador,

Advisor

Romanian Ministry of Foreign

Affairs

97 Romania Mr Alexandru Lucian

MANOLE Rector ARTIFEX University of Bucharest

98 Romania Ms Luciana MIHAI Director of International

Relations Department

University POLITEHNICA of

Bucharest

99 Romania Prof Adrian PAPARI Rector Andrei Saguna University

100 Romania Prof Marilen-Gabriel

PIRTEA Rector West University of Timișoara

101 Romania Prof Ioan Aurel POP Rector Babes-Bolyai University

102 Romania Prof Valentin POPA Rector Stefan cel Mare University of

Suceava

103 Romania Ms Alina ROINITA Students’ Forum Participant University of Bucharest

104 Romania Professor Sorin RUGINA Rector Ovidius University Of Constanta

105 Russian Federation Ms Xenia KOROTKOVA Head Unit

The Russian Presidential

Academy of National Economy

and Public Administration



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106 Russian Federation Ms Larisa TARADINA

Director for International

Education and Cooperation

Development

The Russian Presidential

Academy of National Economy

and Public Administration

107 Singapore Prof Anne PAKIR

Associate Vice-President

(University and Global

Relations)

National University of Singapore

108 Singapore Mr Justin TAY Regional Director & General

Manager (Asia) Times Higher Education

109 Slovakia Mr Gabriel WEIBL Lector, Researcher Comenius University in Bratislava

110 Slovenia Prof Zdravko KAČIČ Rector University of Maribor

111 Spain Dr Àngels FITÓ BERTRAN

Vice President for

Competitiveness and

Employability

Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

112 Spain Ms Nadja GMELCH Head of projects, Globalisation

and Cooperation Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

113 Spain Dr Josep M. VILALTA Executive Secretary Catalan Assossiation of Public

Universities (ACUP)

114 Spain Ms Gemma XARLES Director of Globalisation and

Cooperation Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

115 Sweden Prof Göran FINNVEDEN Vice-President for Sustainable

Development KTH Royal Institute of Technology

116 Sweden Prof Martin HELLSTRÖM Vice-Chancellor University West

117 Switzerland Prof Stephan HUBER

Head of the Institute for the

Management and Economics

of Education

University of Teacher Education,

Zug

118 Thailand Assoc Prof Nopraenue

Sajjarax DHIRATHITI

Acting Vice-President for

International Relations and

Corporate Communication

Mahidol University

119 Thailand Prof Bundhit EUA-ARPORN President Chulalongkorn University

120 Thailand Asst Prof Flg Off Chatchai

KUNAVISARUT

Acting Vice-President for

Student Affairs and Alumni Mahidol University

121 Thailand Prof Pornchai

MONGKHONVANIT President Siam University

122 Thailand Ms Suchada

PHRUTHONKUL

Head, Strategic International

Collaboration Unit Mahidol University

123 Thailand Asst Prof Dr Thakerng

WONGSIRICHOT

Vice-President for

International Affairs Prince of Songkla University

124 United Kingdom Dr Graeme ATHERTON Director National Education Opportunities

Network (NEON)

125 United Kingdom Ms Meg BAKER

Senior Project Officer -

Education for Sustainable

Development

National Union of Students – UK

126 United Kingdom Dr Phil BATY Chief Knowledge Officer Times Higher Education

127 United Kingdom Mr Michael CARUANA Director Times Higher Education

128 United Kingdom Prof Jonathan GRANT Vice President, Vice-Principal

(Service) King’s College London

129 United Kingdom Prof Liz GRANT Assistant Principal University of Edinburgh

130 United Kingdom Mr Michael LUBACZ Director Times Higher Education

131 United Kingdom Prof Alpaslan ÖZERDEM Associate Pro-Vice Chancellor

for Research Coventry University



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132 Viet Nam Mr PHAM Quang Hung Director General Ministry of Education and

Training, Viet Nam

133 Viet Nam Prof TRAN Diep Tuan President University of Medicine and

Pharmacy of Ho Chi Minh City

134 Viet Nam Dr TRAN Tien Khoa Rector

International University (Vietnam

National University Ho Chi Minh

City)

135 Viet Nam Dr VO Huan Deputy Head, Office of

External and Public Relations

International University (Vietnam

National University Ho Chi Minh

City)

136 Organisation Dr Natalia BICHURINA President of the Eurasian

Chapter

Erasmus Mundus Students and

Alumni Association (EMA)

137 Organisation Mr Ramu DAMODARAN Chief, United Nations

Academic Impact (UNAI) United Nations

138 Organisation Dr Choltis DHIRATHITI Executive Director ASEAN University Network (AUN)

139 Organisation Ms Marie-Céline FALISSE Liaison Officer Erasmus Student Network (ESN)

140 Organisation Prof Pam FREDMAN President International Association of

Universities (IAU)

141 Organisation Ms Katrina KOPPEL Vice-President European Students' Union (ESU)

142 Organisation Ms Piyapat KULTANAN Senior Programme Officer ASEAN University Network (AUN)

143 Organisation Ms Lucia LOPOSOVA Teaching Staff, Vice-President

& Partnerships Director

The University of Hong Kong,

Erasmus Mundus Association

(EMA)

144 Organisation Mr Giorgio MARINONI

Manager for Higher Education

and Internationalization Policy

Projects

International Association of

Universities (IAU)

145 Organisation Mr M. Miandy MUNUSAMY Officer ASEM Education Secretariat

146 Organisation Prof Michael MURPHY President-Elect European University Association

(EUA)

147 Organisation Mr Robert NAPIER Vice-President European Students' Union (ESU)

148 Organisation Dr Tibor NAVRACSICS

European Commissioner for

Education, Youth, Sport and

Culture

European Commission

149 Organisation Ms Naparat

PHIRAWATTANAKUL Senior Programme Officer ASEAN University Network (AUN)

150 Organisation Mr João PINTO President Erasmus Student Network (ESN)

151 Organisation Dr Chantavit SUJATANOND Director

SEAMEO Regional Centre for

Higher Education and

Development (SEAMEO RIHED)

152 Organisation Dr Christopher

TREMEWAN Secretary General

Association of Pacific Rim

Universities (APRU)

153 Organisation Mr David URBAN Coordinator ASEM Education Secretariat

154 Organisation Dr Hilligje VAN'T LAND Secretary General International Association of

Universities (IAU)

155 Organisation Ms Ophélie VERCHERAND

CLAVIER Trainee ASEM Education Secretariat

156 Organisation Dr WANG Libing Chief of Section

Educational Innovation and Skills

Development (EISD), UNESCO

Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau

for Education



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157 Organisation Ms Lesley WILSON Secretary General European University Association

(EUA)

158 Organisation Dr Eden Yi-Teng WOON President Asian Institute of Technology

159 Organisation Ms Thérèse ZHANG Deputy Director, Higher

Education Policy Unit

European University Association

(EUA)

160 Organisers Ms Leila CELLERIER Project Officer, Education

Department Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF)

161 Organisers Mr Andy CHAN Project Officer, Education


162 Organisers Mr Ross CHEUNG Project Executive, Education


163 Organisers Dr Alexandru Mihai GHIGIU Vice-Rector

National University of Political

Studies and Public Administration

(SNSPA)

164 Organisers Ms Leonie NAGARAJAN Director, Education


165 Organisers Prof Remus PRICOPIE Rector

National University of Political

Studies and Public Administration

(SNSPA)

166 Organisers Ms Nanthini

SAMBANTHAN Intern, Education Department Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF)

167 Organisers Ms Reka TOZSA Project Manager, Education


168 Organisers Mr Martin VIDANES Project Executive, Education


169 Organisers Ambassador Karsten

WARNECKE Executive Director Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF)

170 Media Team Mr Sean LEE Photographer Sean Lee Photography

171 Media Team Ms Caroline PAUL

KANJOOKARAN Young Reporter European Youth Press

172 Media Team Ms Nicole POP Young Reporter European Youth Press

173 Media Team Mr Heiko SEIBEL Videographer, photographer Heiko Seibel Photography

174 Media Team Ms Patricia SENGE Young Reporter European Youth Press



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PARTICIPANTS and SPEAKERS

Professor Katherine

BELOV

Representing Australia

Pro-Vice-Chancellor

Global Engagement

The University of

Sydney

Professor Kathy Belov is the Pro-Vice Chancellor (Global

Engagement) at the University of Sydney. In this position

she takes responsibility for managing the development

and execution of the University's global engagement

strategy. Key priorities are the development of the

capacity of academic and professional staff to support

international student learning and international research

collaborations, and to achieve educational excellence in

the international arena. She also promotes the

University's position in the international academic and

research community, and identifies and enables strategic

opportunities for partnership and collaboration in

research and education. Professor Belov's research is

based in the School of Life and Environmental Sciences

(SOLES) and her focus is on comparative genomics and

immunogenetics of Australian wildlife. Her team studies

Tasmanian devils, koalas, wallabies, platypus and many

other species.

Mag. Friedrich

FAULHAMMER

Representing Austria

Rector

Donau-Universität

Krems

Mag. Friedrich Faulhammer studied law in Vienna, and

worked at the Department of history of law and at the

Legal Department of University Directorate at the

University of Vienna from 1985 until 1990. He has been

working at the Austrian Ministry for Science and Research

since 1990, and held diverse leadership functions in the

section of higher education since 1993. From 2003 until

2005 he held the position of Deputy Director General in

the ambit of legal matters, and has since then been

actively involved in the implementation of the University

Act 2002. He held the position of Director General of

Section I at the BMWF from 2005 until July 2013. Since

August 2013 Mag. Faulhammer holds the position of

Rector of the Danube University Krems. During 2017 and

2018 he was also President of the Danube

Rectors´Conference.

Mr Mohamed Emran

HOSSAIN

Representing

Bangladesh

Member, Board of

Trustees

Daffodil International

University

Mr Mohamed Emran Hossain is a member of the Board of

Trustees of Daffodil International University (DIU), the

fastest growing university in Bangladesh, since 2002. He

is highly skilled in the areas of higher education

management and quality assurance, internationalisation,

organisational management and IT project supervision. In

addition to these roles, Mr Hossain is the Chief Operating

Officer of the entire Daffodil Family group of concerns,

encompassing 25 education-related institutions in

Bangladesh. He completed his Bachelor's and Master's

degrees in International Relations from the University of

Dhaka and a Master's degree in Management of

Development from ITC-ILO and Turin University, Italy.

Currently, besides his organisational responsibilities, he is

completing a Doctor of Philosophy qualification at

University Sains Islam Malaysia. He is also a member of

different national and international higher education

organisations, such as EAIE, AUAP, ISTQB, INQAAHE,

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Professor Munaz

Ahmed NOOR

Representing

Bangladesh

Vice-Chancellor

Bangabandhu Sheikh

Mujibur Rahman Digital

University

Professor Munaz Ahmed Noor is the Vice-Chancellor of

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Digital University

(BDU). Prior to this, he was the Vice-Chancellor of the

Islamic University of Technology and Pro-Vice-Chancellor

of the National University, Bangladesh. He is also a

professor in the Civil Engineering Department in

Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology.

Recently, Commonwealth University conferred on him a

Honorary Doctorate Degree for his contribution to the

tertiary education section in Bangladesh. He has also

been awarded the Education Leadership Award by CMO

Asia for his outstanding contribution to tertiary education

in Bangladesh. He is a member of the National Council for

Science and Technology and Digital Bangladesh

Taskforce which are both headed by the Hon'ble Prime

Minister Sheikh Hasina. He has been selected as an

individual consultant for Seismic and Structural

engineering related issues for Ruppur Nuclear Power

Plant project and is active in many social and professional

bodies.

Ms Caroline HOLLELA

Representing Belgium

Attachée

Ministry of the French

community of Belgium

(FWB)

Ms Caroline Hollela works as Attachée within the Ministry

of the French community of Belgium (FWB). The

Directorate for Higher education, Life Long Learning and

Scientific Research ensures the steering, the organization

and the funding of higher education and scientific

research in Wallonia-Brussels Federation (DGESVR).

Within the service in charge of the internationalisation of

higher education in the ministry (NARIC), she takes part in

various working groups and committees on higher

education in relation to the European Union, the Council

of Europe, the Bologna Process, the UNESCO, the OECD

and the ASEM Education-Process. She represents the

position of Wallonia-Brussels Federation within

intergovernmental processes linked to higher education.

Caroline Hollela holds a Master’s degree in Political

Sciences (International Relations) and a Bachelor’s

degree in Social and Political Sciences from the

Université Catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain).

Ms Nadia REYNDERS


Coordinator ASEM

Education Secretariat

Belgium

Ministry of Education,

Flemish Community

Ms Nadia Reynders works since 2013 as a policy advisor

and project coordinator at the Flemish Ministry of

Education and Training in the field of lifelong learning.

Before 2013 she has been managing different

educational progammes in the sector of development

cooperation, mainly in Teacher Training. In these

programmes she worked closely with Ministries of

Education in South-East Asia (Cambodia, Laos and

Vietnam). Currently, she is coordinating the ASEM

Education Secretariat, as a representative from the

Flemish Ministry of Education, together with her colleague

David Urban (French Community representative). In this

position she is responsible for supporting and following

up the ASEM Education Process which consists of

activities, programs and projects to stimulate Europe-Asia

collaboration and exchange in the field of Higher

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Dr Imran UDDIN


Vice-rector of Education

and Student Policies

Artevelde University

College Ghent

Dr Imran Uddin born and raised in Belgium is a first-

generation student who attended university. He obtained

his PhD in History at the University of Leuven in 2006.

Since 2000 he has worked in various functions at

different higher education institutions: tutor for first year

students at his alma mater, staff member with a focus on

education, study and student guidance, and equal

opportunities and diversity at Leuven University College

and head of the department of social studies at that

same institution. Since 2015 he is the director of

education and student policies at Artevelde University

College Ghent with a focus on educational development,

digital learning, internationalisation, study guidance and

student services, quality assurance and marketing and

communication. He is also president of the European

Access network and of the Support Centre for Inclusive

Higher Education.

Dr Siew Yean Joyce TEO

Representing Brunei

Darussalam

Vice-President (Global

Affairs)

Universiti Brunei

Darussalam

Dr Joyce Teo is the Assistant Vice Chancellor and Vice

President overseeing Global Affairs and

Internationalisation Initiatives at Universiti Brunei

Darussalam. Her portfolio includes global partnership,

student and staff mobility programmes as well as the

UBD-FPT Global Centre that offers English language in Da

Nang (Vietnam). Before she became the Vice President

(Global Affairs), Dr Teo also held the roles of Director of

International Office, Dean of UBD School of Business &

Economics as well as the Inaugural Director of Institute of

Policy Studies. Besides her administrative role, Dr Teo

obtained her PhD at the University of Queensland and she

also practices labour economics and econometrics. She

is also one of the senior economists in the country where

she has done much work on APEC and ASEAN Economic

Community.

Professor Anastas

GERDJIKOV

Representing Bulgaria

Rector

Sofia University St.

Kliment Ohridski

Professor Anastas Gerdjikov is the Rector of Sofia

University St. Kliment Ohridski. He gives lecture classes

on Latin and Roman Literature. His scientific interests are

in the field of Roman literature and the political theory of

the Antiquity and the Middle Ages. He is the author of 4

monographs and more than 40 studies and articles on

the topic of ancient literature and on the regulations of

higher education. He is also the first person to translate

Aristotle's “Politics” in Bulgarian. He is fluent in English,

German, French, and Russian. Professor Gerdjikov was a

Deputy Minister of Education and Science (2001-2003),

Chairperson of the Fund for Scientific Research (2007-

2008) and member of the specialised board for the

theory of literature at the High Attestation Commission

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Mr PHAL Des

Representing

Cambodia

Vice-Rector

Royal University of

Phnom Penh

Mr Phal Des is the Vice-Rector of the Royal University of

Phnom Penh, in charge of Quality Assurance and

Academic Affairs. He was also Co-Chair of the Japan-

Cambodia Joint Symposium on Information Systems and

Communication Technology in 2011 and the 1st Asian

Conference on Information Systems ACIS in 2012. From

2007 to 2011, he was Director of the IT Center of Royal

University of Phnom Penh. Mr PHAL has spent over 3

years of research on the system auto-evaluation and e-

learning at the Université Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium.

From 2005 to 2007, he worked on projects such as the

Greater Mekong Sub-region Virtual University and the

Open Source e-Learning project of UNESCO. During 2007-

2008, he worked on an e-health and e-education project

with WASEDA University and KDDI Japan. He is a

Chairman of IEEE subsection in Cambodia as well as a

member of the Editorial Board of the ASEAN Journal on

S&T for Development.

Mr Emtotim SIENG

Representing

Cambodia

Rector

University of

Battambang

Ms Emotim Sieng obtained her Master’s Degree in

Anthropology from the Royal Academy of Cambodia. She

is now pursuing her PhD in education and Khmer culture

with a focus on gender equality and the role of women in

local economic development. Ms Sieng had also served

as Dean of the Faculty of Humanism, Arts and Education

from 2007-2009, before being appointed as Vice-Rector

in 2009 and Rector of the University of Battambang in

2013. She has been involved in teaching, doing research

on education, psychology and Khmer culture, as well as

authoring and co-authoring a number of research articles,

book chapters and books. Ms Sieng has served as

principal investigator, coordinator and team leader of

national and international projects funded by the World

Bank, JICA, ADB and EU aiming to improve agricultural

production, sustainable economic growth and higher

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Professor James TANG

Representing China

Secretary-General

University Grants

Committee

Hong Kong

Professor James Tang has been appointed as Secretary-

General, University Grants Committee of the University

Grants Committee (UGC) Secretariat since 2018. He has

served in senior academic and management positions in

local and overseas universities and possesses rich

management experience in higher education institutions

before he joined the Government. He joined the

Singapore Management University (SMU) in 2011 and

was Dean and Professor of Political Science at the School

of Social Sciences. Since 2014, he has concurrently

served as Special Adviser to the President of SMU on

Greater China affairs. Before assuming his position at

SMU, Professor Tang had served in the University of Hong

Kong and was the Head of the Department of Politics and

Public Administration from 1999. During 2002 to 2006,

he was the Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, and

from 2007 to 2010, he was Professor in the Department

of Politics and Public Administration while serving as

Director.

Professor Sidong

XIONG

Representing China

Rector

Soochow University

Professor Sidong Xiong received his PhD degree in

Microbiology from FuDan University in 1992. He

performed his post-doc training at the French National

Institute for Health and Medical Research (INSERM)

followed by a visiting scholar at University of California-

San Diego. Professor Xiong's research interests are

focused on the studies of anti-infection and anti-tumor

immunology, pathogenesis of autoimmune diseases, and

development of novel DNA vaccines. He has published

more than 280 papers in peer-reviewed journals to date,

including Nature Biotechnology, PNAS, Hepatology and

Journal of Immunology. Additional acedamic contributions

include 26 patent applications, chief editor or associate

editors for 12 academic books and 15 textbooks.

Professor Qiao ZHANG

Representing China

Director of International

Office

Soochow University

Professor Qiao Zhang is a professor in the Institute of

Functional Nano & Soft Materials, Soochow University,

China. He is also the Director of International Office of

Soochow University. He received his PhD from the

Department of Chemistry, University of California,

Riverside. After being a postdoctoral fellow in the

Department of Chemistry, University of California Berkeley

& Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (2012-2014),

he joined the Institute of Functional and Soft Materials in

2014. His main research areas are molecular level

studies of surface and heterogeneous catalysis, and

controllable synthesis of all-inorganic perovskites with

tunable optical properties and their application. He has

published more than 100 papers and was listed as 2018

Highly Cited Researchers.



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Professor Mislav

BALKOVIC

Representing Croatia

Dean

Algebra University

College

Professor Mislav Balkovic is Assistant Professor, Dean of

Algebra University College and an active researcher in the

area of national qualifications frameworks, validation of

non-formal and informal learning and knowledge

management. He has participated in a number of

national projects including the development of legislation

for CROQF and the implementation of various policy and

regulatory documents in higher, VET and adult education.

He is currently doing research on the validation of non-

formal and informal learning and development of modern

educational approaches (methodics and didactics).

Professor Balkovic was a member of the National Council

for Science, Higher education and Technology (2012-

2016) and currently acts as the President of the Sector

Skills Council for Electrotechnics and Computing. He is

also a member of the National Council for VET and the

President of Croatian Employers Association in Education

Professor Theodore

PANAYOUTOU

Representing Cyprus

Director

Cyprus International

Institute of

Management (CIIM)

Professor Theodore Panayotou, a 2007 Nobel Peace

Prize Contributor, is a Professor of Economics and Ethics

as well as the Director of the Cyprus International

Institute of Management (CIIM). He is also a Visiting

Professor at Tel Aviv University and a member of the

Cyprus President's Council of the National Economy.

Professor Panayotou taught Economics for 25 years at

Harvard University, served as Senior Economist at the

Rockefeller Foundation and advised Presidents and

Premiers in 15 countries including China, Mexico, Russia

and the USA. He has published over 100 books,

monographs and peer-review articles on economics and

business and served as consultant to companies,

governments, the UN and the World Bank.

Professor Panikkos

POUTZIOURIS

Representing Cyprus

Rector

University Of Central

Lancashire Cyprus

(UCLan Cyprus)

Professor Panikkos Poutziouris is Professor of

Entrepreneurship and Family Business and the Rector at

UCLan Cyprus, as well as Chair of the Centre for

Entrepreneurial Development Alliance and Research. He

is also a Fellow at Judge Business School, University of

Cambridge, working with the Economics and Policy Group

on Circular Economics and Entrepreneurial Development

Models. For two decades, he was a Senior Lecturer and

later, a visiting Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship

and Family Business at the Alliance Manchester Business

School, United Kingdom. Professor Poutziouris teaches,

educates, researches and advises around the world on

the development of entrepreneurship and family

business. He has served as an advisor-consultant for the

Family Business Expert Group working for the European

Commission, Directorate of Enterprise and Industry and

for OECD on Entrepreneurship Policy. He is an active

Fellow of the Family Firm Institute and the former

President of the International Family Enterprise Research

Academy.



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Professor Filippos

POUYIOUTAS

Representing Cyprus

Rector

University of Nicosia

Professor Filippos Pouyioutas is the Rector of the

University of Nicosia, Cyprus. Since his election in 2016,

he has developed joint and double Master programmes

with 9 Universities and transformed his University into a

leading Distance Learning Education provider. He is a

member of EURASHE's working group of Quality

Assurance. He has also served as member of External

Institutional Evaluation Committees in Greece, and as

Chair and member of External Programme Evaluation

Committees for 5 Universities in Lithuania. He recently

chaired the Review Panel for the implementation TeSLA

at the Open University, United Kingdom. From 2007 to

2014, he served as a Bologna Expert and led the

University of Nicosia to the award of the Diploma

Supplement Label in 2010 (renewed in 2013) and the

ECTS Label in 2012. He developed software for Learning

Outcomes, ECTS and National Qualifications Frameworks.

He also developed Quality Assurance Labels for Teaching

Quality, e-Learning Quality, and Engagement with Society.

Professor Pantelis

SKLIAS

Representing Cyprus

Rector

Neapolis University

Pafos

Professor Pantelis Sklias is the Rector of the Neapolis

University Pafos since 2018, and a Professor of

International Relations and International Political

Economy (IPE). He has also taught in the Department of

International and European Studies, University of

Macedonia as Visiting Lecturer, in the Department of

International Economic Relations and Development,

Democritus University of Thrace as Visiting Lecturer and

Assistant Professor (2002-2007) and at the Hellenic

Open University from 2002 until today. He graduated in

1990 from the Department of International Relations of

Panteion University in Athens. He was awarded both his

Master's Degree in International Relations (1991) and his

PhD in International Relations and IPE (1998) from the

University of Sussex, United Kingdom. In 2000 he

accomplished his postdoctoral thesis at the Hellenic

Center of Political Research of Panteion University with a

fellowship from the State Fellowship Foundation.

Dr Dalibor MIKULÁŠ

Representing Czech

Republic

Head of International

Relations Office

Palacky University

Olomouc

Dr Dalibor Mikulas is Head of International Relations

Office at Palacky University Olomouc. Previously he

worked at two other universities as a Vice-Rector for

International Cooperation and Mobility, Vice-Dean for

International Cooperation and Public Relations, Erasmus

Institutional Coordinator, et al. He defended his thesis at

Comenius University, Bratislava, and was a recipient of

several scholarships and grants at e.g. the University of

Notre Dame, USA; University of Ottawa, Canada; The J.

William Fulbright Commission, Czech Rep., etc. His

research has focused on the issues connected with

Central Europe and North America. A member of the

Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences (SVU), Dr.

Mikulas participated and organized several SVU World

Congresses. In 2008, he received the SVU Presidential

Citation 2008 Award for the Advancement of Czech and

Slovak Studies, Worldwide, Fostering Cooperation

between the Czech and Slovak Rep., Czechs and Slovaks

Worldwide.



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Dr Ondrej POKORNY

Representing Czech

Republic

Executive Advisor for

Asia

Palacky University

Olomouc

Dr Ondrej Pokorny is Executive Advisor for Asia at Palacky

University, Olomouc. He joined Palacky University in

2016. Priorly Dr Pokorny dealt mainly cooperation with

Czech´s private investors to Southeast Asia and dealt

with spice trade. He has more than 10 years of

experience with multicultural area of Southeast Asia and

bringing people together from diverse backgrounds which

is an invaluable asset to internationalization. He holds a

Master’s degree and a PhD in Social and Cultural

Anthropology from the Charles University, Prague. His

focus is on ethnobotany and Jesuits history in Southeast

Asia.

Professor Jan ŠKRHA

Representing Czech

Republic

Vice-Rector for

International Affaires

and Mobility

Charles University

Professor Jan Škrha is Vice-Rector for International Affairs

and Mobility at Charles University, Czech Republic (MD,

DSc). After finishing his medical studies, he has been

working in the Department of Internal Medicine 3 where

he graduated with a PhD in 1983. Since 1984, his

scientific work has focused on diabetes. He became a

Professor of Internal Medicine in 2001. Professor Škrha

is a member of the following scientific organisations:

Czech Diabetes Society (Secretary since 1990, President

2000-2002 and since 2018, Vice-Chairman 2014-2018),

European Association for the Study of Diabetes (auditor

1998-2002, Secretary of the Postgraduate Education

Subcommittee 1995-2000, Honorary Treasurer 2003-

2006), International Federation of Danube Symposia on

Diabetes mellitus (Secretary, 1996-1999), American

Diabetes Association, Czech Medical Association (Vice-

President until now), and European Union of Medical

Specialists (UEMS) as Vice-President (2012-2015). He

has published 260 communications, 150 of which as the

first author. 85 were published in international journals,

mainly in diabetology.

Professor Claus HOLM

Representing Denmark

Head of School

Aarhus University

Professor Claus Holm is Head of School at The Danish

School of Education (DPU) at Aarhus University. DPU

constitutes Denmark's largest and strongest university

environment for basic and applied research within the

field of education and educational theory (pedagogics).

With its 155 scholars and 90 PhD students, it constitutes

one of the largest education research environments in

Europe. Professor Holm is PhD and Associate Professor

with focus on teachers' professional judgment and ethics.



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Ms Tuula ANTOLA

Representing Finland

Director of Economic

and Business

Development

City of Espoo

Ms Tuula Antola is an engineer inspired by people, and an

innovation activist with a passion for entrepreneurship

and creative destruction as source of renewal. She works

as the Economic and Business Development Director for

the City of Espoo with a focus on developing the enablers

for growth of the Espoo Innovation Garden ecosystem. Ms

Antola has a M.Sc.(tech) degree from Aalto University

School of Engineering in Environmental Management,

Paper Technology. After her studies she has co-founded

three startups, and worked in both local SME's and global

companies - in headhunting, market research and

environmental management. She has also authored a

book on Leadership for Innovativeness (published in

Finnish in 2006) as well as several articles related to

creativity, innovativeness and sustainability. She is an

experienced keynote speaker in seminars and

conferences as well as a facilitator and moderator of

workshops and events, both in Finland and international.

Ms Joanne PAGÈZE

Representing France

Vice-president for

Internationalisation

University of Bordeaux

Vice-President for Internationalization, Ms Joanne Pagèze

is a university lecturer at the Department of Languages

and Cultures at the University of Bordeaux, strongly

interested in international teaching/learning and English

Medium Instruction. She has been project leader of Défi

International, a university-wide teacher development

program for EMI and international classroom since 2014.

Vice-chair of the EAIE expert community on Language and

Culture, Ms Pagèze is also assistant-editor for the

European Journal of Language Policy and board member

of the French national association for language centers

(RANACLES) affiliated to CERCLES. She participates in the

European Strategic Partnership EQUIIP, working to

develop quality professional development for

internationalisation at home and international programs.

Mr Michael

HÖRIG

Representing Germany

Head of Division-

Strategic Planning

German Academic

Exchange Service

(DAAD)

Mr Michael Hörig is the Head of Division Strategic

Planning and supervises the work of five sections at the

DAAD headquarters in Bonn, Germany: Higher Education

Policy, Monitoring & Evaluation, Sustainable

Development, German Studies and Studies & Research.

In addition, he is responsible for the project unit that

deals with the implementation of the DAAD Digitalisation

Strategy. He also previously led the Section 'Development

Cooperation: Partnership Programmes, Alumni Projects

and Higher Education Management / P32', a section

responsible for university partnership programmes with

developing countries and capacity development projects

in the field of higher education management. Having

worked at the European level before, Mr Hörig enjoys

participating actively in EU funded projects. He is active

as an expert on Qualifications Frameworks within the

project European Union Support to Higher Education in

the ASEAN Region (SHARE).



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Mr Sebastian

SPERLICH

Representing Germany

Head of Section

German Academic

Exchange Service

(DAAD)

Mr Sebastian Sperlich is Head of the Section for

Sustainable Development at the German Academic

Exchange Service (DAAD). His responsibilities include

knowledge creation and strategy development at the

interface between higher education and sustainable

development. The focus lies on the Agenda 2030 and its

consequences for the DAAD engagement. Before joining

DAAD, Mr Sperlich worked as Team Leader for ICON-

INSTITUTE Consulting Group and was responsible for the

business development and the implementation of

development cooperation projects. He holds a Master's

degree in Social Science from the University Koblenz-

Landau. His regional focus is Africa and Asia.

Dr Peter RADA

Representing Hungary

Vice-Dean for Academic

and International

Affairs

National University of

Public Service

Dr Peter Rada has been the Vice-Dean for Academic and

International Affairs at the National University of Public

Service, Hungary since 2017. He served as the

Congressional Liaison Officer at the Hungarian Embassy

in Washington, D.C. between 2015 and 2017. Prior to

this assignment, he worked at the Ministry of Foreign

Affairs and Trade as well as in academia at several

Hungarian and foreign universities. He was also the head

of the Corvinus Society, a Budapest based think-tank

dealing with international politics and security policy. He

published several articles, book chapters on security

policy and Trans-Atlantic cooperation, and co-authored a

textbook on security studies. Dr Rada participated at the

U.S. State Department's International Visitor Leadership

program in 2010 and was a Fulbright visiting scholar at

SAIS, the Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D.C. and

Columbia University, New York in 2008-2009.

Professor Ashish

BHARADWAJ

Representing India

Dean and Executive

Director

O.P. Jindal Global

University

Professor Ashish Bharadwaj is Professor & Dean of Jindal

School of Banking and Finance, and Executive Director of

the Office for Rankings, Benchmarking & Institutional

Transformation at O. P. Jindal Global University, India. He

is also Founding Director of Jindal Initiative on Research

on Intellectual Property & Competition (JIRICO). Professor

Bharadwaj holds B.A. Economics from University of Delhi,

M.Sc. Economics from Anna University and LL.M. in law &

economics from Erasmus University Rotterdam, University

of Hamburg & Manchester University. He completed his

PhD at the Max Planck Institute and the University of

Munich (LMU). Prof Bharadwaj writes on technology

innovation and patents, law & economics and national

innovation as well as IPR policies. He has more than 50

publications to his credit, including 3 books and several

journal articles. He has collaborated with 6 top-ranked

universities, 2 of the biggest technology companies, 4

leading multilateral organizations and 9 government

agencies.



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Professor Nuhfil

HANANI

Representing Indonesia

Rector

University of Brawijaya

Professor Nuhfil Hanani completed his Doctorate degree

in Agriculture Economy from Bogor Agriculture Institute of

Indonesia in 2000. From 2003 to 2007, he was the Vice-

Dean of Academic Affair faculty of Agriculture and was

appointed to the full professorship position in the Faculty

of Agriculture of the University of Brawijaya in 2011. He

became the Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture in 2014

and Rector of the University of Brawijaya in 2018.

Professor Djagal

MARSENO


Vice Rector

Universitas Gadjah

Mada

Professor Djagal Wiseso Marseno graduated from

Universitas Gadjah Mada Indonesia with a Bachelor's

degree in Agricultural Products Technology (1984), and

from Graduate School of Biosphere Science, Hiroshima

University - Japan with a Master's degree (1990) and a

PhD(1993). He has a lot of experience in the field of

Biopolymer Science and Technology, especially on

modified and synthesis of carbohydrate polymer as well

as in the Quality Management System of Higher

Education. He was in charge as head of the department,

vice dean and dean of Faculty of Agricultural Technology -

Gadjah Mada University (2008-2012). Professor Djagal

has experience as a Deputy of Strategic Studies at the

National Resilience Institute of the Republic of Indonesia

(2014-2017). Since August 2017 he is in charge as a

Vice Rector for Education, Learning and Students Affairs

at Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta - Indonesia.

Professor Panut

MULYONO


Rector

Universitas Gadjah

Mada

Professor Panut Mulyono was appointed as a Rector of

Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) in 2017. He served as

Dean of Faculty of Engineering UGM in 2012-2016 and in

2016 was re-elected as a Dean. He is a Professor of

energy science in the field of chemical engineering

system optimization at Gadjah Mada University. He

graduated from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan in

1990 and obtained his doctorate at the same university

in 1993. He serves as a Lecturer at the Department of

Chemistry Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, UGM. He

also serves as the Expert Board of UGM Energy Studies

Center. In the field of research, he produced various

research published in scientific publications in national

seminars, international seminars, national journals, and

international journals. In addition to actively contributing

to education and research, he also went directly to the

community to participate in community service activities.



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Professor Ni Nyoman

Tri PUSPANINGSIH



Airlangga Global

Engagement

Universitas Airlangga

Professor Ni Nyoman Tri Puspaningsih obtained her

Bachelor's degree in Chemistry and continued with a

Master's and a Doctorate degrees focusing in

Biochemistry, until she achieved her Professor title of

Biochemistry in 2010. Recently, she was appointed as an

Adjunct Professor at the Asia University, Taiwan. Since

1987, she has worked in several positions in Universitas

Airlangga: as a Biochemistry lecturer at Department of

Chemistry (1987-present), as the Head of Proteomic

Laboratory at Institute for Tropical Disease (2011-

present), as the Director of Academic Affairs (2007-

2017), and the most recently as the Executive Director of

Airlangga Global Engagement (2017-present). She was

experienced in research programs held by JSPS (short

course fellows, Japan) and University of Groningen (post

doctoral fellows KNAW, Netherlands). Her research

interests include the structure and function analysis of

Lignocellulolytic Enzymes. She has collaborated with

overseas universities, research institutes, and industries

on her research.

Dr Dina SEPTIANI


University Expert Staff

for Global Engagement

Universitas Airlangga

Dr Dina Septiani is a PhD Graduate in Rhetorics,

Communication, and Information Design from Clemson

University, USA. She obtained her Bachelor's and Master's

degrees from the Netherlands, studying corporate

communication. She is currently holding a permanent

teaching position in the Communication Department,

Universitas Airlangga Indonesia. Her research focuses on

Identification and Consubstantiality in participatory

culture, and her teaching competencies include Social

Media Communication and Political Marketing

Communication. Aside from teaching, her managerial

duties also involve assisting the Director of the doctoral

program in the Faculty of Social and Political Science. She

also holds a position as expert staff for Rector in

Universitas Airlangga, and advises the rector in the area

of Global Engagement.

Dr Fathul WAHID


Rector

Universitas Islam

Indonesia

Dr Fathul Wahid is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of

Informatics, Universitas Islam Indonesia. He received his

Bachelor's degree in Informatics from Bandung Institute

of Technology, Indonesia, and his Master's and PhD

degrees in Information Systems from University of Agder,

Norway. Prior to being elected as the Rector of

Universitas Islam Indonesia in 2018, he has served the

university through various positions, such as the Dean of

Faculty of Industrial Technology (2006-2010), the Chief of

Academic Officer (2014-2016), and the Chief of

Information Officer (2016-2018). He is also an active

researcher. His research interest focuses on the ICT4D,

eGovernment, and enterprise systems. He has published

in several journals such as CAIS, EJISDC, and TGPPP. His

works have also been presented at various conferences

such as HICSS, ECIS, EMCIS, IFIP WG 9.4, ePart, and

eGov. Currently, he is working on research projects

related to eParticipation and land information systems in

rural Indonesia.



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Professor Orla FEELY

Representing Ireland

Vice President for

Research, Impact and

Innovation

University College

Dublin

Professor Orla Feely is Vice President for Research,

Innovation and Impact and a Professor of Electronic

Engineering at University College Dublin. She holds a BE

degree from University College Dublin and MS and PhD

degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, where

her PhD thesis won the DJ Sakrison Memorial Prize for

outstanding and innovative research. While at UC

Berkeley, she also won the Outstanding Graduate Student

Instructor Award. Professor Feely is a Member of the

Royal Irish Academy and a Fellow of the IEEE (Institute of

Electrical and Electronics Engineers), Engineers Ireland

and the Irish Academy of Engineering. She has served as

Chair of the Irish Research Council, the EU Advisory Group

on Marie Sklodowska Curie Actions, and the IEEE

Technical Committee on Nonlinear Circuits and Systems.

Professor David

FITZPATRICK


President

Technological

University Dublin

Professor David FitzPatrick received his Engineering

Bachelor’s degree from the Trinity College Dublin in 1985

and his D.Phil degree from the University of Oxford in

1990. Working in University College Dublin from 1998 to

2018, he was directly involved in the delivery and

development of the mechanical engineering design and

bioengineering curricula at undergraduate and post-

graduate levels. Promoted to Full Professor in 2012,

Professor FitzPatrick has been Head of the School of

Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering from

2005 to 2011, Vice-Principal (Internationalisation &

Development) in the College of Engineering &

Architecture from 2011 to 2012 and was appointed

Provost (Chief Academic Officer) of Beijing-Dublin

International College in 2012 and Dean of Engineering &

Principal, UCD College of Engineering & Architecture in

2014. In 2019, he was appointed as the inaugural

President for the newly established Technological

University Dublin.

Dr Maria KIRRANE


Sustainability Officer

University College Cork

Dr Maria Kirrane is the Sustainability Officer for University

College Cork (UCC). She holds a PhD in Ecology and

undertook her postdoctoral research on the role of higher

education in facilitating the transition to a more

sustainable society. In her current role, Dr Kirrane has

coordinated the University's first Living Laboratory

Research Fund and was responsible for completing the

University's first submission to the AASHE STARS

programme. The latter saw UCC become the first

University outside of North America to be awarded a Gold

Star rating.



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Dr Gerard MULLALLY


Lecturer


Dr Gerard Mullally is a lecturer in Sociology and research

associate with the Environmental Research Institute,

MaREI, the Cleaner Production Promotion Unit and the

Institute for Social Sciences in the 21st century, all at

UCC. In 2019, he was responsible for the academic

coordination of an international summer school on the

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Global Goals

Local Action: Making Sustainability Work, organised by

UCC, UMASS (Lowell), UNAL (Colombia) and the Ludgate

Hub in Skibbereen. Dr Mullally has been an invited

delegate to international working groups and expert

groups on sustainability and climate change e.g. Trans-

Atlantic Research and Development Interchange on

Sustainability (TARDIS) - A Scientific Workshop (Graz

2017); JPI Climate Expert Workshop on Social Sciences

and Humanities in Climate Services Research, Venice

(2017). He was a member of Earth System Governance,

Taskforce on Conceptual Foundations: Environmental

Policy Integration, hosted by the Copernicus Institute of

Sustainable Development.

Professor John

O'HALLORAN


Deputy President &

Registrar


Professor John O'Halloran is Deputy President & Registrar

at University College Cork, Ireland, where he holds the

highest academic office. He is an academic leader with

an ambitious vision for the future of Higher Education. He

is also Chair of Zoology and has published over 200

research papers and a number of books on ecology,

ornithology, ecotoxicology and biodiversity. Professor

O'Halloran has led the transformation of Higher Education

provision at UCC, particularly in the area of sustainability.

Under his leadership, UCC's Green Campus Programme

became the first third level institution worldwide to

receive the Green Campus award in 2010. Since then it

has achieved significant impacts including the

development of a Sustainability Strategy, and has won a

large number of international environmental awards. The

journey in sustainability and the development of the

green agenda at UCC has influenced national government

policy and is now being rolled out across higher education

institutions.

Professor Antonio FIORI

Representing Italy

Vice-Rector’s Delegate

for International

Relations with Asia and

Oceania

University of Bologna

Professor Antonio Fiori is Associate Professor of

International Relations of East Asia at the Department of

Political and Social Sciences at the Forlì campus of the

University of Bologna, and Adjunct Professor at Korea

University, Seoul. He obtained his PhD from the University

of Pavia in 2006. He was also a visiting scholar at the

United International College (Zhuhai, PRC), East-West

Center (Honolulu, USA), and Kyujanggak Center for

Korean Studies (Seoul National University, Korea). In

November 2015 he was appointed the Vice-Rector's

delegate for the relations with Asia and Oceania.



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Dr Caroline Fern

BENTON

Representing Japan

Vice President and


Global Affairs

University of Tsukuba

Dr Caroline Fern Benton was appointed as Vice President

of Global Affairs of the University of Tsukuba in 2013,

after serving as chair of the university's MBA Program in

International Business. She is also Director General of the

university's Global Commons, an expert member of the

Japanese Association of National Universities'

International Exchange Committee, and a member of the

International Olympic Committee's Education

Commission. Her research interests lie in knowledge

management and global leadership; her research projects

include a 12-country study on the learning mechanism of

global leadership competencies, a comparative study on

global-mindedness in youth, and most recently a

Japanese government-funded study on well-being and

happiness in corporations. Dr Benton earned her

Bachelor of Science degree from the University of

California, Davis, her MBA degree from the University of

Tsukuba, and her PhD in Management Engineering from

the Tokyo Institute of Technology.

Dr SUGIMURA Miki

Representing Japan

Vice President for

Global Academic Affairs

Sophia University

Dr Miki Sugimura is a professor of Comparative and

International Education, and Vice President for Global

Academic Affairs at Sophia University. She holds a

Master’s degree of Education and a PhD from the

University of Tokyo. She is the President of Japan

Comparative Education Society, a member of Japanese

National Committee for UNESCO, a member of the grant

committee of Japan Foundation for United Nations

University, and a member of the advisory council of Japan

Student Service Organization. Dr Sugimura's research is

focused on regionalism and regionalization through

transnational higher education, and multicultural

education in the era of migration. Her publications

include Equity in Excellence (2019, co-author), The Role

of UNESCO in Cross-border Higher Education for

International Student Mobility (2018), Cross-border

Migration and the Nation-State (2017, editor), Human

Security and Peace Building (2017, co-author) and

Education for Sustainable Development and Citizenship

Education in the Multi-cultural Societies (2014, co-editor).

Professor Galimkair

MUTANOV

Representing

Kazakhstan

Rector

al-Farabi Kazakh

National University

Professor Galimkair Mutanov is a professor, academic

and D.Sc., Rector of al-Farabi Kazakh National University,

member of the WAAS, and Vice-President and

Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of

Kazakhstan. His excellent management skills and

commitment has facilitated KazNU to gain a solid

foothold in the area of international education. Having

graduated from the Kazakh Polytechnic Institute,

Professor Mutanov obtained his postgraduate and

doctoral degrees from the Moscow State Mining

University. He started managing universities such as

Kozybayev and Serikbayev universities during his early

years. In 2002, he became the first Vice-Minister of

Education and Science in Kazakhstan. He is the author of

more than 500 scientific publications and had selected

works reviewed by Nobel Prize winner John Nash.

Professor Mutanov has also won various awards such as

the ISESCO Prize in Mathematics.



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Dr Loretta O’DONNELL

Representing

Kazakhstan

Vice Provost for

Academic Affairs

Nazarbayev University

Dr Loretta O'Donnell received her MBA from the University

of South Australia and her PhD in Management from the

Macquarie Graduate School of Management. She was

appointed as the Vice Provost for Academic Affairs at

Nazarbayev University (NU) in August 2013. As the Vice-

Provost for Academic Affairs, Dr O'Donnell coordinates

with the Deans in developing international quality

academic systems for educational programs. She liaises

with NU strategic partners in implementing the mission of

the University and sharing the experience with local and

regional universities. She has over twenty years of

experience in teaching Executive MBA, postgraduate and

undergraduate business students in the Australian School

of Business, University of New South Wales. Dr O'Donnell

has also won awards for her research on human capital

analysis in financial markets. Previously, she consulted in

organizational change for a large global firm in Sydney

and Chicago.

Professor KIM Sunhyuk

Representing Korea

Professor of Political

Science and Former

Vice President for


Korea University

Professor Kim Sunhyuk is Professor of Political Science

and Former Vice President for International Affairs at

Korea University. He received his Bachelor's degree in

Economics from Seoul National University, and his

Master's degree and PhD in Political Science from

Stanford University. In ARC7, Professor Kim is a debate

session speaker in “Connecting SDGs to research

rankings will undermine academic quality.”

Professor MO Jongryn

Representing Korea

Director

Hills Governance

Center at Yonsei

University

Dr Mo Jongryn is currently a professor of international

political economy at the Graduate School of International

Studies, Yonsei University, where he teaches courses on

international political economy, Korean development, and

cultural economics. He wrote, with Barry Weingast,

“Korean Political and Economic Development: Crisis,

Security and Institutional Rebalancing” (2013) and with

John Ikenberry, “The Rise of Korean Leadership:

Emerging Powers and Liberal International Order” (2013),

and edited “Middle Powers and G20 Governance” (2013).

He is also the author of two recent books on the future of

Korean cities, “Small Towns, Big Companies” (2014) and

the “Rise of the Lifestyle City” (2016). At Yonsei, he has

held several senior administrative positions including as

the first dean of Underwood International College (2005-

2008) and a vice president for international affairs

(2012-2016). Prior to joining Yonsei in 1996, Dr Mo was

an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin.



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Professor Houngphet

CHANTHAVONG

Representing Lao PDR

Vice Rector


Laos

Professor Houngphet Chanthavong is a senior lecturer

and professor in natural resources management and

economics at the Faculty of Forestry, National University

of Laos (NUOL) where he was the Dean and currently

serving as Vice President. He started his academic

profession as a lecturer of forestry engineering and

project planning and management since 1992. In 2016,

he was appointed as Vice President of NUOL. Prior to the

taking his post as Vice President, he got books and

papers published in both local and international journals

and conference publication. He has successfully

supervised a number of postgraduate students on

forestry logging and environment management. He has

received the 2nd Class Labour Medal (Order) and the 3rd

Class Labour Medal (Order) including these orders and

certificates of achievement during the time.

Dr Phonesavanh

THEPPHASOULITHONE

Representing Lao PDR

Vice Rector

Champasack University

Dr Phonesavanh Thepphasoulithone obtained his PhD in

Education: Curriculum and Instruction from Simon Fraser

University, Canada in 2009. She has worked with the

Ministry of Education and Sports since 1989 as a teacher

of English at the National University of Laos). Graduate

Certificate in TESOL from Deakin University of Australia in

1994, Graduate Diploma in TESOL, University of

Technology Sydney in 1998, and Master of Educational

Management from Flinders University of South Australia

in 2002. She was a Head of English Language Section in

2003-2004. From 2005-2006 she was admitted to be

the Head of the Faculty of Education, Champasack

University. In 2009 she was assigned to be a Head of the

Planning and International Cooperation Office until 2010

and then became a Dean of the Faculty of Education,

Champasack University. Since 2011, she is the Vice

President of Champasack University for International

Cooperation, Research and Academic Affairs.

Professor Inna

STECENKO

Representing Latvia

Vice Rector for

Research, Head of

doctoral programme

Regional Economy &

Economic Policy

Baltic International

academy

Professor Inna Stecenko, PhD in Economics, is the Pro-

Rector for Science of the Baltic International Academy in

Riga, Latvia. She also manages the doctoral programme

"Regional Economy and Economic Policy" since 2009.

She is an Expert in the field of “Economics” of the Latvian

Council of Science since 2013. She was awarded a grant

from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Taiwan in 2018,

and was as a Fellowships Researcher at the National

Taiwan University. Professor Stecenko is a member of the

editorial board of a varios of international scientific

journal in the USA, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, etc. She is

actively engaged in teaching, as she taught in Warsaw as

a professor (from 2010 to 2018), and as a visiting

professor in Oriental Study University (Tashkent,

Uzbekistan) in 2016 and 2018. Professor Stecenko is an

international expert and participates in work of the

accreditation commission (programme of MBA in Russia,

Ukraine). Her scientific interest is in the field of

economics of the Central and Southeast Asia countries.



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Dr Arturs ZEPS

Representing Latvia

Vice-Rector for

Strategic Development

Riga Technical

University

Dr Arturs Zeps is currently the Vice-Rector for Strategic

Development at Riga Technical University. He manages

the process of university's strategy development and

implementation as well as coordinates the cooperation

with governmental institutions, ministries and social

partners with the aim to foster development of the

University. He oversees university's infrastructure

development, attraction of EU funds and quality

management processes within Riga Technical University.

Dr Zeps holds a Master's degree in International

Economic Relations Management and Organization from

Riga Technical University and a MBA degree from Riga

Business School as well as a Doctoral degree in

Organization Management. His field of research is related

to strategy development and implementation process as

well as factors influencing implementation of strategic

settings within organizations.

Prof Dr Regina

VALUTYTE

Representing Lithuania

Vice-Rector for

Academic Affairs

Mykolas Romeris

University

Dr Regina Valutyte is the Vice-rector for academic affairs

at Mykolas Romeris University, professor at the Institute

of International and EU law at Mykolas Romeris School of

law, the head at the Security Research Laboratory and

coordinator of Nordplus law network. R. Valutyte has been

involved as a human rights expert in a number of EU

funded national and international research projects, has

been leading and co-managing various educational

human rights initiatives, and served as a visiting

professor teaching human rights numerous times at the

universities in France, Spain, Portugal, Argentina,

Germany, Poland, and Bulgaria.

Professor Tan Sri

Dzulkifli ABDUL RAZAK

Representing Malaysia

Rector

International Islamic

University Malaysia

Professor Dzulkifli Abdul Razak is the Rector of the

International Islamic University. He is the immediate past

president of the International Association of Universities

(IAU), a UNESCO-affiliated organisation, based in Paris. He

was the Convenor of the Regional Centre of Expertise on

Education for Sustainable Development based in

Universiti Sains Malaysia beginning 2005. Professor

Abdul Razak was awarded the prestigious 2017 Gilbert

Medal in recognition of "his long term commitment to a

sustainable approach to international higher education."

He is a Fellow of the Academy of Sciences Malaysia and,

the World Academy of Art and Science.

Professor Imran Ho

ABDULLAH

Representing Malaysia

Deputy Vice Chancellor

(Industry and

Community

Partnerships)

Universiti Kebangsaan

Malaysia

Professor Imran Ho Abdullah is Deputy Vice-Chancellor

(Industry and Community Partnership) at Universiti

Kebangsaan Malaysia. He brings to the position broad

and extensive experience in senior academic roles. He

chairs the Asean University Sub thematic network on

University Social Responsibility and Sustainability which

promotes university empowerment of the community.

Professor Imran has a First Class Honours (in English)

from the University of Otago, New Zealand, a Diploma in

Education with Distinction from Universiti Kebangsaan

Malaysia, a Master of Philosophy (in Linguistics) from the

University of Cambridge, as well as a PhD in Cognitive

Semantics from the University of Otago, New Zealand. He

has also attended the Executive Programme on Crisis

Leadership in Higher Education at the Harvard Graduate

School of Education (HGSE) and Harvard Kennedy School



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(HKS). He has been a Fellow of the Cambridge

Commonwealth Society since 1990.

Dr Alex RIZZO

Representing Malta

Deputy Principal for

Research & Innovation

Malta College of Arts,

Science and

Technology

Dr Alex Rizzo presently acts as Deputy Principal for

Research & Innovation and was previously Head of the

University College at the Malta College of Arts, Science

and Technology. His main areas of expertise are in

vocational education & training (VET), alternative

technologies, grounded theory research, and integrated

water resources management. Prior to this, he set up and

managed the MCAST Institute of Applied Sciences. His

previous engagements includes being the Deputy

Chairman at the Malta Water Services Corporation,

having taken on various engineering and management

roles within the water utilities sector for over 15 years. Dr

Rizzo presently heads a number of research and skilling

projects relating to the efficient use of water, as well as in

grounded theory research on organisational behaviour.

He is a Fellow and Chartered Member of the Institution of

Engineering & Technology, the Chartered Management

Institute and the Chartered Institution for Water and

Environmental Management.

Professor Carmen

SAMMUT

Representing Malta

Pro Rector for Students

and Staff Affairs and

Outreach

University of Malta

Professor Carmen Sammut is Pro Rector for Students and

Staff Affairs and Outreach at the University of Malta,

where she lectures in International Relations and Critical

Journalism. She is also currently chairing the Technical

Committee responsible for the Consultation Document on

the reform that is aimed to bring about a gender-

balanced Parliament. Professor Sammut holds a PhD in

Media and Communications from Goldsmiths College,

University of London. She obtained her Master's degree

(cum laude), a Post Graduate Certificate in Education

(PGCE), and a BA Degree from the University of Malta.

She is a long-experienced broadcaster and regularly

appears as an analyst discussing current events.

Professor Ochirbat

BAATAR

Representing Mongolia

President

Mongolian University of

Science and

Technology

Professor Ochirbat Baatar was awarded his PhD degree in

Computer Science from the System Science Research

Center of the Mongolian University of Science and

Technology (MUST) in 2002. He has also undertaken

System Dynamics Graduate Courses at the Department of

Information Science at University of Bergen, Norway, in

2001. Professor Baatar is an expert in Mathematics with

a specialisation in Analysis and System Dynamics

Modeling. With his 20 years of diverse working

experience, he has occupied various positions, from

instructor to President of the university. He has been an

instructor at National University of Mongolia, researcher

at System Science Research Center of the MUST, Director

of School of Computer Science and Management, Vice-

President for Research and Development of the MUST

and President of the MUST. Professor Baatar has

published 12 books and 45 scientific papers in applied

mathematics and system dynamics modeling.



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Dr Ochirkhuyag

BAYANJARGAL


Vice-President


Mongolia

Dr Ochirkhuyag Bayanjargal received his Bachelor's and

Master's Science degrees in Chemical Technology from

the National University of Mongolia (NUM) in 1997 and

1999 respectively, and his PhD degree in Chemical

Engineering from the Nagoya University, Japan, in 2008.

Since 2009, he has been working in the Department of

Chemical Technology, Faculty of Chemistry, NUM, where

he was an Associate Professor before becoming Dean of

School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering in 2010,

and a Professor in 2014. Since 2017, he has been the

Vice-President for Academic and Student Affairs at NUM.

Dr Bayanjargal is a Chairman of Dissertation Defense

Committee for Chemistry. He is a member of Higher

Education Commission, Mongolian National Council for

Education Accreditation. His current research interests

include metal and ceramic nanocomposites, separation

technology and grinding process in material sciences.

Dr TSOLMON Jadamba


President

Mongolian National

University of Medical

Sciences

Professor Tsolmon Jadamba started as a lecturer in the

National Medical University in Mongolia from 1992-1995.

Then she became Head of the International Relations

office for the International Institute of Nomadic

Civilisation in Mongolia until 2007 when she became the

Mongolian Vice-Minister of Ministry of Health in 2012.

Professor Tsolmon was the Advisor to the Minister of

Education, Culture, Science, and Sport of Mongolia before

becoming President of the Mongolian National University

of Medical Sciences, the position that she is currently

occupying since 2018. Professor Tsolmon holds a

Bachelor's degree from the Medical University of

Mongolia and a Master's degree in Dental Science from

the same university. She also obtained a PhD from the

Health Science University of Mongolia.

Ms Bolor

JAMIYANDAGVA


Specialist

Ministry of Education,

Culture, Science and

Sports of Mongolia

Ms Bolor Jamiyandagva is a specialist at the Ministry of

Education, Culture, Science and Sports of Mongolia. She

completed her Bachelor's degree at the National

University of Mongolia and has also studied at the Akita

International University in Japan and the Georg August

University of Gottingen, Germany for a one year exchange

program respectively. Ms Jamiyandagva is the focal point

of Global Partnership for Education for the Ministry. She is

also a Resolution and Hansen Fellow.



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Dr Kay Thwe HLAING

Representing Myanmar

Pro-Rector

Yangon University of

Education

Dr Kay Thwe Hlaing is a Pro-Rector of Yangon Unviersity of

Education. She obtained her Bachelor’s and Master’s

degrees in Geography from the University of Yangon. Her

PhD was awarded from the University of Tokyo, Japan in

2008. She was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Japanese

Society for Promotion of Sciences from 2012 to 2014.

Her expertise lies in Environmental Studies especially in

Geomorphology and Hydrology. Dr Hlaing has more than

22 years of working experience, ranging from being a

tutor at University of Yangon, Assistant Lecturer at Dawei

University, Lecturer at University of Yangon, Associate

Professor at Bago University and Professor at University

of Yangon. She also works as a part time member of AG

at National Water Resources Committee. Dr Hlaing has

also published 44 papers, most of which are in

international journals, and written two text books. Her

research focuses on Myanmar's rivers and its water,

sediments and channel morphology.

Professor Aung KYAW


Pro-Rector

University of Yangon

Dr Aung Kyaw received his M. Sc. (Geography) and D.Sc.

(Geography) form Tokyo Metropolitan University in 1999

and 2002, respectively. His specialized fields of study are

Economic Geography and Rural Development. He served

as a visiting scientist for the Department of Geography in

Cologne University (Germany) in 2006. He Joined the

Brunei-US English Language Enrichment Programme

2013 at the University of Brunei Darussalam (Brunei) and

East West Centre (Hawaii) in 2013. Dr Kyaw became a

Professor in Geography Department of Dagon University

in 2011. In 2012, he was promoted as a Pro-Rector in

University of Yangon. He is a Chairperson of Research

and Development Committee in Geographical Association

of Myanmar since 2015. He is a Governing Board

Member of SEAMEO INNOTECH since 2015. In 2017, he

was appointed as a member of National Accreditation

and Quality Assurance Committee. He published 31

articles in international and national academic journals.

Dr Aye Aye MYINT


Rector

Yangon University of

Education

Dr Aye Aye Myint is the Rector of Yangon University of

Education. Her PhD (Edu.) was awarded by the University

of Tokyo, Japan in 2001. She has published 24 works

including 8 international research publications and many

editorial works on topics related to Educational

Psychology, Early Childhood Education, Testing and

Assessment, and Teacher Education. She has also been

working for international cooperation and collaborations

with UNICEF, UNESCO, OSF, VSO, British Council, 4

Japanese Universities, 10 AsTEN member universities,

Hong Kong University, EU, DAAD, United Board and so on.

Dr Myint has been awarded the Title "Best Manager" by

European Business Assembly from Oxford, UK in 2016,

and The Bizz Awards: World Business Leader Award &

World Leader Business Person Award by World

Confederation of Business, Houston, Texas in 2018.



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Dr Saw PYONE NAING


Rector

Sagaing University of

Education, Ministry Of

Education

Dr Saw Pyone Naing holds a PhD in Systems Science from

Tokyo University, Japan (2000). He is the rector of

Sagaing University of Education and works for the

department of Higher Education, Ministry of Education.

Dr Sint SOE


Rector

Mandalay

Technological

University

Professor Sint Soe has been serving as the ninth Rector

of the Mandalay Technological University since 2017.

Professor Sint has held a number of leadership positions

at Technological universities and has rich experience in

higher education management at the senior level. He was

also Professor and Head of Technological University

(Mandalay) from 2006 to 2011. He played an active role

in promoting management on various research works

implementing by scientists and researchers at

Technological University. Now, he is also a member of

Engineering Education Accreditation Committee, where

he focuses on promoting External Quality Assurance

(EQA). In 2018, he was elected as a Vice-President of

Rector's Committee in Myanmar, holding the Executive

President position at Mandalay Technological University,

Myanmar.

Dr Karl DITTRICH

Representing the

Netherlands

President

EQAR

Dr Karl Dittrich is currently President of EQAR, and

formerly president of Maastricht University (1994-2002),

chair of the Dutch Flemish Accreditation Organisation

(NVAO) (2002-2012), president of the Association of

Dutch Universities VSNU (2012-2017). He is member of

the University Council of the University of York (UK).

Dr Catalina GOANTA

Representing the

Netherlands

Assistant Professor

Maastricht University

Dr Catalina Goanta is assistant professor at Maastricht

University, and researcher on social media influencers

and monetized content at the Maastricht Working on

Europe project. She recently returned to the Netherlands

after a year abroad as Niels Stensen visiting scholar

(2018) at the University of St. Gallen and Harvard

University. She is also a Stanford Transatlantic

Technology Law fellow was a visiting scholar at Stanford

Law School in 2017. In 2014, Catalina was awarded the

Maastricht University Wijnand Wijnen education prize,

and her projects on innovating legal education have

shortlisted at the Re-Imagine Education Awards

(University of Pennsylvania) in 2015 and 2016.



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Professor Henk

KUMMELING

Representing the

Netherlands

Rector Magnificus

Utrecht University

Professor Henk Kummeling has served as Utrecht

University's Rector Magnificus since 2018. He studied law

in Nijmegen, where he also obtained his doctoral degree

in 1988. In 1994, he was appointed Professor of

Constitutional and Administrative Law at Tilburg

University. He has been a Professor at Utrecht University

since 1995 and served as Dean of the Faculty of Law,

Economics and Governance from 2008 to 2014. In 2015,

the Executive Board appointed him a Distinguished

Professor of Utrecht University for his outstanding

academic record. Between 2002 and 2006, Professor

Kummeling chaired the committee that introduced the

'Utrecht teaching model'. He has lectured in China,

Indonesia, the United Kingdom, the United States,

Suriname and South Africa. Law students in Utrecht and

Tilburg have elected him 'lecturer of the year' on

numerous occasions.

Professor Catherine

MORAN

Representing New

Zealand

Professor and Assistant

Vice-Chancellor,

Academic

University of Canterbury

Professor Catherine Moran is the Assistant Vice-

Chancellor Academic of Amokapua Akoranga Taupua at

the University of Canterbury and has held this position

since January 2018. Professor Moran is responsible for

university-wide policy and strategy related to academic

programmes and teaching and learning. She is

responsible for driving both academic strategy and the

overall academic performance of the University and in

particular, maintaining and advancing the University's

academic profile. She has also provided oversight and

coordination of the Graduate Profile programme and

other key academic strategic projects. More recently, she

has been involved in curricular developments across UC

that address sustainable development goals nationally

and internationally.

Dr Tor HALVORSEN

Representing Norway

Vice Rector for Global

Affairs

University of Bergen

Dr Halvorsen works at SDG Bergen and under the

leadership of the Bergen Rectors office the coordination

of the SDG work of the University sector of Norway. Dr

Halvorsen also teaches courses relevant to SDG issues

(presently on politics of energy), and organizes with his

colleagues the university wide seminar series on

Knowledge and Democracy focusing the SDGs.



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Dr Mujeeb-U-Ddin

MEMON

Representing Pakistan

Vice-Chancellor

Sindh Agriculture

University Tandojam

Dr Mujeeb-U-Ddin Memon holds a PhD in Mechanical

Engineering from Sussex University. Presently, he is the

Vice-Chancellor of Sindh Agriculture, one of the oldest

agriculture Universities of Pakistan. With his efforts, the

University has built-up a strong Agriculture Extension set-

up in collaboration with progressive growers and farmers.

Dr Memon has has 28 years of teaching, research and

administrative experience. Prior to his present

assignment, he has served as Director Continuing

Education and Founder Principal of Mehran University

College of Engineering and Technology (MUCET), Khairpur

Mir's at Mehran University of Engineering and Technology

Jamshoro. Dr Memon has also supervised various PhD

and Masters projects and is the author of 54

publications. Based on his academic and research

performances, the Higher Education Commission (HEC)

honored him with Best University Teacher Award for the

year 2008.

Professor Danilo

CONCEPCION

Representing the

Philippines

President

University of the

Philippines

Professor Danilo L. Concepcion is one of the Philippines'

leading experts in Corporation Law. He obtained his LL.B.

from the University of the Philippines (UP) College of Law

in 1983, and LL.M. from the University of London in

1986. He represented the youth sector in Congress

(1978-1986), was Associate Commissioner of the

Securities and Exchange Commission (1996-2000), and

President of the De La Salle-Araneta University (2000-

2002). In 2011, he was named UP's Vice President for

Legal Affairs and the 14th Dean of the UP College of Law,

and in 2017, became the 21st President of the UP

System. Currently, he also sits as a Governor of the

Philippine Red Cross, and serves at the Philippine Judicial

Academy, the Mandatory Continuing Legal Education

Governing Board, and the Supreme Court Committee on

Legal Education and Bar Matters.

Professor Melinda

DELA PEÑA

BANDALARIA

Representing the

Philippines

Chancellor and

President

University of the

Philippines Open

University, Asian

Association of Open

Universities

Professor Melinda dela Peña Bandalaria is the Chancellor

of the University of the Philippines Open University and

currently the President of the Asian Association of Open

Universities (AAOU). She teaches online graduate

courses and is actively involved in doing research on

open and distance elearning and in implementing ICT4D

projects. She spearheaded the development and

implementation of MOOCs in the Philippines. Her current

involvement include: implementing a Universal Access to

Learning framework in the open distance elearning mode

of instructional delivery and quality assurance in open

distance e-learning.



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Dr Winston PADOJINOG

Representing the

Philippines

President

University of Asia and

the Pacific

Dr Winston Padojinog, an associate professor of industrial

economics and strategic management, is currently the

President of the University of Asia and the Pacific (UA&P).

Before being appointed as President, he occupied various

positions in the university - from graduate staff member

to School Secretary and Vice-Dean of the School of

Economics and the Dean of the School of Management.

He lectures and undertakes research in the fields of

industry dynamics, strategic management, finance and

business sustainability courses in the graduate programs

of UA&P. His extensive experience and researches in the

field as an industry economist and business strategist

makes Dr Padojinog a sought after expert and consultant

by industry associations, policy makers and companies

for their industry policy, corporate strategy, business

sustainability and governance requirements.

Fr Jose Ramon T

VILLARIN SJ

Representing the

Philippines

President

Ateneo de Manila

University

Fr Jose Ramon T Villarin SJ is the President of Ateneo de

Manila University in the Philippines. He received his

doctorate in Atmospheric Sciences from Georgia Institute

of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, and his Master's degree

in Physics from Marquette University, Milwaukee,

Wisconsin. He is currently the chairperson of the Manila

Observatory, a scientific research institute, and a member

of the National Panel of Technical Experts of the

Philippine government's Climate Change Commission. His

past work on climate change includes being the lead

reviewer of greenhouse gas emission inventories of

Parties to the UNFCCC and a member of the Consultative

Group of Experts for developing countries. He also was a

member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate

Change (IPCC) which received the Nobel Peace Prize in

2007. In 2000, he was declared National Outstanding

Young Scientist and in 2002, his book "Disturbing

Climate" was given an Outstanding Book Award by the

National Academy of Science and Technology.

Dr Roberto C YAP

Representing the

Philippines

President

Xavier University -

Ateneo de Cagayan

Dr Roberto C Yap is the President of Xavier University -

Ateneo de Cagayan, a Catholic and Jesuit University of

15,000 students in Cagayan de Oro City, Mindanao,

Philippines. Dr Yap received his PhD from University

College London, specializing in Environmental Economics.

He likewise holds a Master's degree in Public Policy from

the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government; a

Master's degree of Arts in Theology from Ateneo de

Manila University; a Master's degree of Arts in Economics

from New School for Social Research (NY) and a

Bachelor's degree of Arts in Economics (Honors) from

Ateneo de Manila University. Dr Yap is a Catholic priest,

member of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits).



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Professor Maria de

Lurdes FERNANDES

Representing Portugal

Vice-Rector for

Education, Academic

Affairs and

International

Cooperation

University of Porto

Professor Maria de Lurdes Fernandes is Vice-Rector for

Education, Academic Affairs and International

Cooperation of the Univerisy of Porto (U.Porto). Previously

she was Vice-Rector for Education, Academic and Student

Organization (2006-14) and Chair of the Coordinating

Council of the Educational Model (2011-14). She was

also the Portuguese representative in the Bologna Follow-

Up Group and the U.Porto’s students Ombudsman. From

2007-2012, as coordinator of the Summer Programme,

she implemented an innovative approach to the

traditional summer training which allowed the

reiforcement of existing links and the establishment of

new ones between Porto and stakeholders of the North

region of Portugal. She was also a member of the External

Evaluation and Institutional Assessment Committee by

invitation of the Portuguese Evaluation and Accreditation

Agency for Higher Education. She is the representative of

the Council of Rectors of the Portuguese Universities in

the National Commission for the Recognition of Foreign

Degrees.

Ambassador Professor

Adam JELONEK

Representing Poland

Rector's Representative

for Foreign Affairs

Jagiellonian University

Ambassador Professor Adam W. Jelonek PhD, MBA is the

Chair of the Asian Studies at the Jagiellonian University in

Kraków, Poland. His rich academic experience includes

associate professorship at the Institute of Political

Studies at the Polish Academy of Sciences and Institute

od Sociology of the University of Warsaw. He became the

Head of the Institute of Middle and Far East in 2007, and

under his leadership, the Department became an

Institute. Professor Jelonek acted as the director of this

Institute till 2010 and once again since 2016. In 2010

he became Ambassador Extraordinary and

Plenipotentiary of Poland to Malaysia, Brunei and the

Philippines. He held this position until 2014. Later he has

served as the senior advisor to the Minister of Defence

and member of the advisory board of the Minister of

Foreign Affairs. His academic interests focus on social

development, the theory of democracy and political

anthropology of East and South-East Asia. His the author

of dozens of scientific articles.

Professor Ewa

TROJNAR

Representing Poland

Professor

Jagiellonian University

in Krakow

Professor Ewa Trojnar is a professor at the Jagiellonian

University in Krakow, one of the oldest universities in

Europe. She is a researcher and a teacher of

International Relations in the Asia-Pacific Region. She is

engaged in the research and educational projects with

the intention of establishing better relations between Asia

and Europe. In her work Professor Trojnar focuses on the

developmental and intercultural problems that concern

these relations and also applies her expertise in

facilitating educational and research exchanges

coordinated by the Jagiellonian University Committee for

Internationalization.



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Professor Ioan Vasile

ABRUDAN

Representing Romania

Rector

Transilvania University

of Brasov

Professor Ioan Vasile Abrudan was born and raised in

Bihor, Romania, where he completed his pre-university

studies. He received a Forest Engineering degree from

Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania and a PhD

from Brunel University, United Kingdom, in 1998. He has

more than 27 years of experience in forestry higher

education, research and consultancy. He has also

published 15 books, more than 110 articles and

coordinated several regional and national strategic

projects. He has delivered invited lectures and keynote

speeches in Belgium, China, Czech Republic, Ecuador,

Germany, Moldova, Serbia, Spain, Sri Lanka, United

Kingdom, etc. Professor Abrudan has served in several

managerial positions: Rector of the Transilvania University

of Brasov (since 2012), Dean of the Faculty of Silviculture

and Forest Engineering (2004-2012), Chair of the

Conference of the Deans of European Forestry Faculties

and Schools (2009-2011), as well as President of the

Council for Strategic Institutional Development of the

Technical University of Moldova (since 2015).

Professor Sorin Mihai

CIMPEANU


President, Rector

Romanian National

Council of Rectors,

University of Agronomic

Sciences and

Veterinary Medicine

Professor Dr Sorin Mihai Cimpeanu is currently the

President of National Council of Rectors, President of

Francophone University Agency (AUF), Rector of

Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine University of

Bucharest, Deputy in Romanian Parliament, member of

the Commission for Education, Science, Youth and Sport.

He graduated from the Sf. Sava National College in

Bucharest in 1986 and from the Land Reclamation and

Environmental Engineering Faculty of the Bucharest

University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine

(USAMV) in 1991. He received a PhD from the same

University in 2000. Professor Dr Cimpeanu started a

university teaching career in 1992, going through all the

stages - as assistant, teaching assistant, lecturer, senior

lecturer, professor and PhD supervisor. He has been a

professor and has been heading the PhD courses since

2006. In 2014, he was appointed Minister of Education

and Scientific Research.

Mr Mihnea COSTOIU


Rector

University POLITEHNICA

of Bucharest (UPB)

Mr Mihnea Costoiu is Rector of the University

POLITEHNICA of Bucharest UPB) since 2012. He held

several political positions between 2001 to 2014

including Secretary General of the Romanian National

Ministry of Education, State Secretary of the Romanian

National Ministry of Education and Minister Delegate for

Higher-Education and Research. He is currently General

Secretary of the Romanian National Council of Rectors

and Senator in the Romanian Parliament. He is also

director in the CESAER's board and member of the AUF

Administrative and Associative Councils.



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Professor Coralia Adina

COTORACI


Rector

Vasile Goldis Western

University of Arad

Professor Coralia Adina Cotoraci is the Rector of the

Western University "Vasile Goldis" in Arad since 2012.

She is university professor at the Faculty of Medicine of

UVVG and teaches Hematology and Bioethics and

medical deontology. In 2013 she founded the Center for

Bioethics and Social Studies within the UVVG. She is a

Doctor of medical sciences and in 2014, she received the

title of Doctor Honoris Causa of the National University of

Uzhgorod, Ukraine.

Prof Adrian CURAJ


General Director,

Former Minister of

Education, Research

and Innovation

Executive Agency for

Higher Education,

Research, Development

and Innovation Funding

(UEFISCDI)

Professor Adrian Curaj is former Minister of National

Education and Scientific Research. He is the head of the

UNESCO Chair on Science and Innovation Policies at the

National University of Political Studies and Public

Administration. Professor Curaj had been working as a

consultant for the World Bank, UNESCO, UNIDO, ETF and

EC for studies in Tertiary Education, Science and

Innovation, and Foresight. He has been actively involved

in many research projects (including FP7, H2020, SEE &

INTERREG). He is member of the Board of Directors of the

U.S. Fulbright Commission in Romania and fellow of the

World Academy of Art & Science (WAAS). Professor Curaj

is the one of the artisans and a strong promoter of the

"Laser Valley - Land of Lights" project, which is about an

integrated smart territorial development of the host

region, and enabling knowledge, entrepreneurial and

commercial spillovers for the pan-European Research

infrastructure ELI Nuclear Physics (ELI-NP) in Măgurele

city (Romania).

Professor George

DARIE


Vice-Rector


of Bucharest

Professor George Darie graduated in 1986 the University

POLITEHNICA from Bucharest, Power Plants Department.

Since more than 30 years Professor Darie is specialized

in thermal power plants and their environmental impact

mitigation with specific experience in design,

rehabilitation options, research and teaching activities.

The experience gained during the activity is materialized

in 11 handbooks, more than 70 scientific papers

published; 32 scientific papers presented at different

symposiums, conferences, congresses; more than 40

research contracts. At present he is the Vice-Rector of

University "Politehnica" of Bucharest. He is member of the

Academy of Romanian Scientists and of the board of

National Romanian Committee of the World Energy

Council.



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Ms Dora DAVID


National

Representative

Erasmus Student

Network Romania

Ms Dora David is currently the National Representative of

Erasmus Student Network (ESN) Romania, position that

allowed her to work in a multicultural environment in the

past year. She has been a volunteer in the organisation

already mentioned for the past 4 years, being active on

different levels and in different areas, but always being

particularly interested in the field of Education. Besides

that, she is holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business

Administration at the Bucharest University of Economic

Studies and will soon obtain her Master’s Degree in

Entrepreneurship and Business Administration at the

same University. During her studies, she also has been a

beneficiary of the Erasmus+ programme, studying abroad

for one year, at KU Leuven in Brussels, Belgium.

Mr Stefan Marius

DEACONU


Former President

National Alliance of

Student Organisations

in Romania (ANOSR)

Mr Stefan Marius Deaconu is the former president of the

National Alliance of Student Organizations in Romania

(2017-2018), having previously been vice-president for

educational affairs between 2015-2017. Mr Deaconu has

a rich experience in representing students, being a

member of various structures such as the National

Council for Higher Education Financing, the Romanian

Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education or the

National Council of Ethics and University Management.

During this period he participated in several events

organized by the European Students Union. He was a

scholar of the the Institute for the Investigation of

Communist Crimes and Memory of the Romanian Exile

(IICCMER) (2015-2016) and was a trainee at the Open

Society Archives in Budapest, Hungary (2016-2017). Mr

Deaconu is a PhD candidate in History at the University of

Bucharest.

Ms Ligia DECA


State Adviser

Department of

Education and

Research, Romania

Ms Ligia Deca holds a PhD in Political Science, awarded

by the University of Luxemburg in 2016. She graduated

as head of her class at the Navigation and Naval

Transport Department of the Maritime University of

Constanța, where she also obtained a Master’s degree in

Maritime and Port Management. Ms Deca coordinated

the Coalition for Clean Universities in 2008, within the

framework of an Academic Society of Romania (SAR)

project that aimed to assess the integrity of Romanian

higher education institutions. She was the president of

the European Students Union between 2008 and 2010.

Between 2010 and 2012 she was head of the Bologna

Secretariat and between 2012 and 2015, she was an

expert with the Executive Agency for Financing Higher

Education and Research (UEFISCDI), as well as a lecturer

on formation and educational inclusion at the West

University of Timișoara (from 2014 to 2015). She has

previously coordinated the „Future of Higher Education”

Bologna Process researchers’ conferences. She is a

member of the jury for the European Award for Excellence

in Teaching in the Social Sciences and Humanities

granted by the Central European University (CEU). In

2014 she was selected as a member of the Science in

Education Expert Group – SEEG, convened by the

European Commission.



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Mr Valentin FLOREA


Secretary-General

UN Youth Association of

Romania

Mr Valentin Florea has been part of UN Youth Association

of Romania since 2011 - a youth-led NGO founded in

2009, which has as main objectives the support and

promotion of the United Nations' values and activities

among the Romanian youth, the Romanian society and

the international community. He is the current Secretary-

General of the organization, having previously served,

between 2014 and 2017, as its President. He has

organized, between 2014 and 2018, the signature

conference of the Association - Bucharest International

Student Model United Nations (BISMUN) - the most

important UN simulation from Romania. As representative

of the Association, Valentin has been an active part of

Romania's official delegations at the high-level segment

of different sessions of the United Nations General

Assembly in September 2016, 2017 and 2018. He has

been studying Political Science and International

Relations at SNSPA since 2013.

Prof Ovidiu FOLCUT


Rector

Romanian-American

University

Professor Ovidiu Folcut is the Rector of the Romanian-

American University in Bucharest.

Prof Nicolae ISTUDOR


Rector

The Bucharest

University of Economic

Studies

Professor Nicolae Istudor is the Rector of the Bucharest

University of Economic Studies since 2016, with previous

extensive experience as vice-rector managing the

business and society connections, European funds and

student life. He also has significant public management

experience as Secretary of State for rural development

and agricultural policies with the Romanian Ministry of

Agriculture, Forestry and Rural Development. His teaching

and research interests are in the field of regional and

rural development and agrifood enterprises.

Ambassador Gheorghe

MAGHERU


Governor ASEF,

Ambassador, Advisor

Romanian Ministry of

Foreign Affairs

Ambassador Gheorghe Magheru is a graduate of the

University of Bucharest in English Studies. Currently

Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and previously

Director General for Political Affairs (2013-2016),

Gheorghe Magheru has joined the diplomatic service in

1990.As Ambassador, Permanent Representative of

Romania to the Council of Europe (2001-2006), he has

chaired the Committee of the Ministers' Deputies of the

Strasbourg organisation during the tenure of the

Romanian Chairmanship (2005). Several times director

general or director for global, regional and bilateral

affairs, Gheorghe Magheru is the Governor for Romania in

the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF) since 2009, and,

since 2016 Member of the Scientific Council of the New

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on foreign policy issues.

Mr Alexandru Lucian

MANOLE


Rector

"ARTIFEX" University of

Bucharest

Mr Alexandru Lucian Manole graduatef from the

Bucharest University of Economic Studies and was

teaching IT-related disciplines at the "ARTIFEX" University

of Bucharest (1999-2000). He holds a PhD in Accounting

(2007). He was the Vice-Rector of the "ARTIFEX"

University between 2012 and 2016, and is currently

Rector of the University since 2016.

Ms Luciana MIHAI


Director of International

Relations Department


of Bucharest

Ms Luciana Mihai began her career back in 2006 within

the University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest, holding the

position of the rector's advisor. Between 2009-2014 she

acted as an advisor of the Romanian Minister of

Education and Research. As of 2008 she has attended

and got involved in a large number of projects

implemented by UPB, as the same have been funded out

of European Funds - POSDRU. At present she holds the

position of a PhD Student within the Faculty of Psychology

and Education Science, in the Education Science field. As

of 2016 she is holding the position of an International

Relations Manager within UPB.

Professor Adrian

PAPARI


Rector

Andrei Saguna

University

Professor Adrian Papari is the Rector of Andrei Saguna

University of Constanta since 2012. He graduated and

trained in medical field, interested in suicidology and

toxicology, also trained in international relations

(Romanian Diplomatic Institute, Ministry of foreign

affairs), scholar of The Romanian Academy in the field of

anthropology. He is committed to the constant

improvement of quality in education, participant at

numerous debates and conferences in this specific topic.

Professor Marilen-

Gabriel PIRTEA


Rector

West University of

Timișoara

Professor Marilen Gabriel Pirtea has been the Rector of

the West University of Timisoara since February 2012,

leading a team of very pro-active persons and making the

university an important actor in the local, regional,

national and even international educational environment.

He is very actively involved in the public life of Timisoara,

promoting the idea that one of the major roles of the

universities is to support the social development and to

educate responsible citizens. Since December 2016, he

is a member of the Parliament - vice-president of the

Deputy Chamber, secretary of the Budget, Finance and

Banks Commission; member in the Commission for the

Romanian Communities Abroad and member in the

Romanian Parliament Delegation at the Central-European

Initiative - Parliamentary Dimension.



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Professor Ioan Aurel

POP


Rector

Babes-Bolyai University

Professor Ioan-Aurel Pop, President of the Romanian

Academy, Professor and Rector of Babeș-Bolyai University

in Cluj-Napoca, is the author and co-author of more than

80 books, treaties and manuals and of over 700 studies

and articles, the most recent being "Istoria ilustrată a

românilor pentru tineri" (2018) and "Istoria, adevărul și miturile" (3rd edition, revised and added, 2018). Granted

the Doctor Honoris Causa title by 10 national and foreign

universities. Member of several academies and scholarly

societies, among which the European Academy of

Science and Arts in Salzburg (Austria), the Virgilian

National Academy in Mantua (Italy), Ateneo Veneto in

Venice (Italy), the European Academy of Sciences, Arts

and Letters in Paris (France), he was a visiting professor

to universities of the U.S.A., Italy, France, Hungary,

Austria, and the Director of the Romanian Cultural

Institute in New York (U.S.A.) and the Romanian Institute

of Culture and Humanistic Research in Venice (Italy).

Professor Valentin

POPA


Rector

Stefan cel Mare

University of Suceava

Professor Valentin Popa is an engineer, a university

professor and the former Minister of National Education,

a position that he held between in 2018. He obtained an

engineering degree in electronics and

telecommunications from the Polytechnic Institute of Iasi,

currently Gheorghe Asachi Technical University, in 1989.

Professor Popa started his academic career at the higher

education institute of Suceava, currently Stefan cel Mare

University of Suceava. In 1998, he obtained his PhD from

the Polytechnic Institute of Iasi and went through all

academic levels at the University of Suceava. In 2005, he

became a professor and in 2009, a PhD coordinator. In

2012, Professor POPA was elected Rector of Stefan cel

Mare University of Suceava, a position he holds to this

day.

Professor Sorin RUGINA


Rector

Ovidius University Of

Constanta

Professor Sorin Rugina is the Rector of Ovidius University

Of Constanta.



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Ms Xenia KOROTKOVA

Representing the

Russian Federation

Head Unit

The Russian

Presidential Academy

of National Economy

and Public

Administration

(RANEPA)

Ms Xenia Korotkova is an alumni of the State University of

Management. She holds a Master’s degree in Social and

Human sciences from the University Paris-Sorbonne.

From 2014 to 2018 she worked for the Ministry of

Education and Science of the Russian Federation as a

coordinator of collaboration with Asia-Pacific International

organizations including ASEM, ASEAN, APEC, EAS, BRICS

etc. She is a member of the working group for elaboration

of the Strategy for BRICS Economic Partnership and of

the working group for elaboration of the APEC Education

Strategy 2030. In 2016 Ms Korotkova acted as a Lead

Shepherd of the APEC HRDWG. Since 2019 Ms Korotkova

works for RANEPA as a Head of International Admission

Office.

Ms Larisa TARADINA

Representing the

Russian Federation

Director for

International Education

and Cooperation

Development

The Russian

Presidential Academy

of National Economy

and Public

Administration

(RANEPA)

Ms Larisa Taradina is an alumni of Moscow School for the

Social and Economic Sciences, Higher School of

Economics and Fullbright. She holds a Master's degree in

Social Management from Manchester University. She is

copy editor of the Russian language version of journal

"International Higher Education" edited by the Center for

international higher education of Boston College. From

2005 to 2014 Ms Taradina was deputy head of

International cooperation department of High School of

Economics. From 2014 to 2017 Ms Taradina was Head

of branch for international programs for university

leadership in Federal priority project 5-100. Since 2017

she works for RANEPA as Director for international

education and cooperation development. Among her

main focuses are interuniversity collaboration (French-

Russian University, Spanish-Russian University Alliance);

internationalization of university campus including the

support for foreign students; and training for trainers and

administrative related to international collaboration.

Prof Anne PAKIR

Representing

Singapore

Associate Vice

President (University

and Global Relations)


Singapore (NUS)

Professor Anne Pakir received her Bachelor’s, Master’s

and PhD degrees, respectively, from NUS, UC Berkeley

and University of Hawaii, Manoa and is with the

Department of English Language and Literature at NUS.

She was Director of International Relations at NUS (2008-

2017) and is currently Associate Vice President,

University and Global Relations. She was Vice President

of the Asia Pacific Association for International Education

(APAIE, 2016-2018). A Fulbrighter at Berkeley and

Cornell, she served as President of the Fulbright

Association (Singapore) from 2008-2011 and was a

TOEFL Board Member (2005-2009). She was conferred

The Ordre des Palmes académiques from the French

Government and received the Public Administration

Medal from the Government of Singapore (2014). She is

an Honorary Life Member of AILA, the International

Association for Applied Linguistics. Her primary research

interest is in English-knowing bilingualism and World

Englishes. She is currently working on a Routledge book

project, “English in Singapore: Global Competence and

Local Realities”.



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Mr Justin TAY

Representing

Singapore

Regional Director &

General Manager (Asia)

Times Higher Education

Mr Justin Tay, Times Higher Education (THE)'s Regional

Director & General Manager (Asia), oversees THE's

strategic partnerships and initiatives in Asia, and leads

the team from the Asia Headquarters. Mr Tay continues

to establish partnerships with governments, media and

news agencies, and corporations, while working closely

with universities and helping them build visibility and

awareness around their research and brands. Prior to his

current role Mr Tay came from an audit, accounting, and

credit rating background. He holds a Chartered

Accountant (CA Singapore) and an Association of

Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) membership from

the UK. He is based at the THE Singapore office.

Mr Gabriel WEIBL

Representing Slovakia

Lector and researcher

Comenius University in

Bratislava

Mr Gabriel Weibl’s research interests are in the area of

international student mobility and internationalization of

higher education (idea of cosmopolitanism, intercultural

competence, knowledge transfer and employability),

political communication through social media, and queer

geography. He studied at the NCRE (University of

Canterbury, New Zealand), was a visiting scholar at

Charles University, University of Oxford, the University of

Primorska, the University of Valencia and London

Metropolitan University. Gabiel also works at the Institute

for Forecasting - Slovak Academic of Sciences. He

teaches EU and Social Media; History of Political Thought,

Comparative Politics Western Europe and Political English

(Public speech and debate). He is currently doing

research on ENLIVEN - Lifelong learning (Horizon2020).

His upcoming publication will be “Risk, Uncertainty and

the Role of Serendipity in International Student Mobility in

Globe in Motion 2.”

Professor Dr Zdravko

KAČIČ

Representing Slovenia

Rector

University of Maribor

Professor Dr Zdravko Kačič is a full professor at the

Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

(FERI) of the University of Maribor since 2003. From

2011 to 2015, he was vice-rector of the University of

Maribor for financial matters. His scientific bibliography

comprises of more than 650 bibliographic units, among

which are 95 articles published in scientific journals, 190

articles in conference proceedings, 10 chapters in

monographs and 44 final reports on research results. He

was a visiting researcher at the Technical University of

Berlin and a visiting professor at the Technical University

of Munich, Germany, as well as at the Umea University,

Sweden. He was also invited to lecture at various

European universities. Upon his appointment, Professor

Dr Kačič emphasised that "with its performance, the

University has to justify the confidence of the broader

society in fulfilling its mission".



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Dr Àngels FITÓ

BERTRAN

Representing Spain

Vice President for

Competitiveness and

Employability

Universitat Oberta de

Catalunya

Dr Àngels Fitó Bertran is the Vice President for

Competitiveness and Employability at the Universitat

Oberta de Catalunya in Spain since 2010. Previously she

taught in many other Spanish universities as an

Associated Professor while she worked as consultant in

the financial and accounting area. She holds a PhD in in

Economic and Business Sciences (2005) and a MsC in

Accounting and Finance (1998) from the Universitat de

Barcelona. Her research interests are management and

e-learning, management accounting, financial accounting

and accounting education. The results of her research

have been published in relevant indexed journals or

books. She attends regularly to accounting and education

national and international conferences.

Ms Nadja GMELCH

Representing Spain

Head of projects,

Globalisation and

Cooperation


Catalunya

Nadja Gmelch is currently working at the Universitat

Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) in the Department of

Globalisation and Cooperation as Head of Projects.

Among her tasks is the promotion of Open Science and

Open Knowledge at the UOC as well as the contribution to

an institutional wide strategy for the 2030 Agenda for

Sustainable Development. She has over ten years

working experience in different fields of higher education

and research management. Nadja studied Language,

Business and Cultural Studies at the University of Passau

in Germany and is Master in European Development

Cooperation Policies from the Autonomous University of

Barcelona.

Dr Josep M. VILALTA

Representing Spain

Executive Secretary

Catalan Assossiation of

Public Universities

(ACUP)

Dr Josep M. Vilalta is the Executive Secretary of the

Catalan Association of Public Universities (ACUP) and

Director of the Global University Network for Innovation

(GUNI), formed by UNESCO and the ACUP. He is a

specialist in management and public policy, education

policy and university management and R&D. He has been

a visiting professor in public policy and management at

various universities in London (Great Britain) and Twente

(Netherlands). He has been Deputy Director for Research

at the Generalitat of Catalonia, Head of the Evaluation,

University Studies and Cooperation of the Catalan

Government, promoter and coordinator of the UNESCO

Chair of Higher Education Management. Dr Vilalta has

published more than sixty papers for publications, book

chapters and books on public administration, public

policy, education, universities and scientific policy.

Ms Gemma XARLES

Representing Spain

Director of

Globalisation and

Cooperation


Catalunya

Ms Gemma Xarles i Jubany is Director of Globalisation

and Cooperation at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

(UOC), where she has the mission to implement the

university's globalisation strategy as well as to foster

development cooperation. She has twenty years of

experience in the area of development cooperation,

working for NGOs as well as coordinating diverse

programmes at the United Nations. She studied

Economics and Political Sciences, focussing her

academic and research career on human development,

peace and development cooperation.



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Professor Göran

FINNVEDEN

Representing Sweden

Vice-president for

Sustainable

Development

KTH Royal Institute of

Technology

Professor Göran Finnveden is Professor of Environmental

Strategic Analysis and Vice-president for sustainable

development at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. As

Vice-president he is responsible for the integration of

sustainable development in education, research and

collaboration across the whole university. He is also a

member of KTH's management council. His main

research interest is the use and development of life cycle

assessment and other sustainability assessment tools.

His contributions include both methodology development

and case studies. He also works with environmental

policy and futures studies for sustainable development.

Application areas include buildings, energy, ICT,

transportation, urban development and waste

management. He is a member of the editorial boards of

seven scientific journals and the board of the

International Sustainable Campus Network.

Professor Martin

HELLSTRÖM

Representing Sweden

Vice-Chancellor

University West

Professor Martin Hellström is a Professor of Literature. He

obtained his doctorate in 1990. His dissertation’s title

was Veritas amoris. Die ‘Tristan’ - Konzeption Gottfried

von Strassburg. He was a Foreign Lecturer at Umeå

University (1991-1993), Lecturer in German at Mid-

Sweden University (1993-1994) and subsequently

Lecturer (1995), Associate Professor (2003), and then

Professor (2011) in German literature at the University of

Gothenburg, and Professor of Literature at the University

of Borås (2012). He was head of the subject of German

at Mid-Sweden University (1993-1994), Head of the

Department of German and Dutch (1997-2001, 2006-

2007), Vice Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of

Gothenburg (2007-2011), Pro Vice-Chancellor at the

University of Borås (2011-2016) and since 2017 Vice-

Chancellor of the University of West.

Professor Stephan

HUBER

Representing

Switzerland

Head of the Institute for

the Management and

Economics of

Education

University of Teacher

Education Zug

Prof Stephan Huber is Head of Research and

Development, Member of the University Leadership, and

Head of the Institute for the Management and Economics

of Education of the University of Teacher Education Zug

Switzerland. He also is a member of the School of

Education (ESE) at the University of Erfurt, Senior

Research Fellow Hong Kong Institute of Education,

Adjunct Professor Institute for Education Research Griffith

University Brisbane. He held guest professorships in

Europe and Asia, is member of the academic advisory

boards of different national and international

associations and institutions, is editor-in-chief of EAEA

and member of the editorial board of several journals. He

is also head of the national interdisciplinary research

consortium of the Young Adult Survey of Switzerland of

the Swiss Federal Surveys of Adolescents. For more than

10 years, he has hosted and chaired the World Education

Leadership Symposium (WELS.EduLead.net).



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Assoc. Professor

Nopraenue Sajjarax

DHIRATHITI

Representing Thailand

Acting Vice-President

for International

Relations and

Corporate

Communication

Mahidol University

Assoc. Professor Nopraenue Sajjarax Dhirathiti is

currently serving as Acting Vice-President for International

Relations and Corporate Social Communication at the

Office of the President as well as Associate Professor in

Public Policy and Public Administration at the Department

of Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences and

Humanities, Mahidol University. She obtained a PhD

degree in Politics and International Studies at the

University of Warwick (U.K.) and a Master's degree in

Politics of the World Economy from LSE, University of

London (U.K.). Her current research interest is on co-

production in public policy focusing on lifelong learning

for elderly people as well as other areas of education

policy. The work experience she has is much related to

the harmonization and internationalisation of higher

education. She was the Senior Specialist at SEAMEO

Regional Centre For Higher Education, Senior Programme

Officer AUN Secretariat (1998-2000) and also a

consultant and a resource person to the Asian

Development Bank and the UNESCO.

Professor Bundhit EUA-

ARPORN


President

Chulalongkorn

University

Professor Bundhit Eua-Arpon obtained his Bachelor's and

Master's degrees in Electrical Engineering from

Chulalongkorn University, Thailand, and a PhD degree in

Electrical Energy System from Imperial College of Science

Technology and Medicine, UK, in 1992. Before being

appointed as the president of Chulalongkorn University

(CU) in May 2016, he was the Dean of Faculty of

Engineering, CU during 2014-2016. In 2015, he worked

closely with the engineering alumni to establish an

innovation club at the Faculty of Engineering, CU which

has been a key element in driving innovation of the

university since then. In 2016, he set up the CU

Innovation Hub which opened up the opportunities for

students and academic staff from different disciplines to

work together.

Asst. Prof. Flg. Off

Chatchai KUNAVISARUT


Acting Vice-President

for Student Affairs and

Alumni

Mahidol University

Asst. Prof. Flg. Off Chatchai Kunavisarut received his DDS

(with honors) from the Prince of Songkla University,

Thailand, in 1994. He received his Master's degree of

Science in Prosthodontics from the University of North

Carolina at Chapell Hill in 2000. During his training, he

was awarded the 2nd place of John J Sharry

Prosthodontics Research Award from the American

College of Prosthodontics and Turner Award from

University of North Carolina. In 2002 he received the ITI

scholarship and completed his implant training at the

Center for Implant Dentistry, University of Florida. He is an

ITI fellow and ITI Study club co-ordinator for ITI South East

Asia section since 2011. He is currently working as the

Acting Vice-President for Student Affairs and Alumni at

Mahidol University, and Clinical Director for the Joint

Master program in Implant Dentistry and Dental Surgery

between Mahidol University and International Medical

College, Munster, Germany.



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Professor Pornchai

MONGKHONVANIT


President

Siam University

Professor Pornchai Mongkhonvanit is the current

president of Siam University, First Vice President and

Chair of Higher Education for Sustainable Development

cluster of the International Association of Universities

(IAU). He is also the President Emeritus of International

Association of University Presidents (IAUP) and Former

President of the Association of Private Higher Education

Institutions of Thailand (APHEIT) under the patronage of

Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn. Professor

Mongkhonvanit is also the Former President of the

Thailand Chapter of Phi Delta Kappa. He has also

received Honorary Professorship from Autonomous

University of Guadalajara, Mexico and Guizhou University,

China; he has been honored the PhD Honoris Causa from

Angeles University Foundation, Philippines, University of

Cordilleras, Philippines's Women University and Asia e-

University in Malaysia. He also has received the

distinguished alumni award from Saint Gabriel College

and Kasetsart University.

Ms Suchada

PHRUTHONKUL


Head, Strategic

International

Collaboration Unit

Mahidol University

Ms Suchada Phruthonkul received her Bachelor of Arts

from Silpakorn University in 1985 and Master's Degree in

Communication and Management from University of the

Thai Chamber of Commerce in 1992. In 1993, she

received an Australian scholarship to undertake an

English course at Macquarie University, and in 1995 she

joined an internship exchange program in the field of

International Affairs at Manchester University. Ms

Phruthonkul is presently Head of the Strategic

International Collaboration Unit at the International

Relation Division, Office of the President, Mahidol

University. Her experience in international affairs in higher

education has been extensive, as evidenced by her 30

years of work in this field. Her responsibilities have mainly

involved foreign affairs such as protocols, networking and

academic development, promotion of internationalisation

in inbound and outbound mobility, hosting international

conferences, etc.

Asst. Prof. Dr. Thakerng

WONGSIRICHOT


Vice-President

Prince of Songkla

University

Asst. Prof. Dr. Thakerng Wongsirichot is the Vice-President

for International Affairs at Prince of Songkla University

(PSU), Thailand. He aims to internationalise PSU to meet

the premium international standards in various aspects

including academic and research excellence. PSU targets

to increase both outbound and inbound students from all

around the world. Intelligent mechanisms with IT supports

are managed and fully integrated into the International

Affairs Office in order to promote the managerial decision

making. He was the Assistant President for Educational

Media and Instructional Development and the Head of

ICT Department. He has a PhD in Computer Science. His

specialisations are Machine Learning, Health Informatics,

Information System, and Mobile Programming.



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Dr Graeme ATHERTON

Representing the

United Kingdom

Director

National Education

Opportunities Network

(NEON), Leader of the

World Access to Higher

Education Day (WAHED)

Dr Atherton founded and leads the National Education

Opportunities Network (NEON): the national professional

organisation for equality and diversity in higher education

in UK. He has produced nearly 200 publications, holds

visiting professorships at 3 different universities including

Sunway University, Kuala Lumpur and leads on the World

Access to Higher Education Day initiative.

Ms Meg BAKER

Representing the

United Kingdom

Senior Project Officer -

Education for

Sustainable

Development

National Union of

Students - UK

Ms Meg Baker is working to increase student experiences

of Education for Sustainable Development. She leads on

applied learning programmes at the Nation Union of

Students (UK), creating partnership working for

sustainability between students and community

organisations for environmental and social benefit

through research, innovative and creative projects or

placements. She was previously working at University of

Gloucestershire and their Students' Union leading on

student and community engagement for sustainability,

this also involved her coordination of a UN Regional

Centre of Expertise for Sustainability Education in the

Severn region. She has a degree in Geography from

University of Glasgow and an Environmental Consultancy

MSc from University of Plymouth.

Mr Phil BATY

Representing the

United Kingdom

Chief Knowledge

Officer


Mr Phil Baty is a leading international authority on

university performance and strategy, with more than 22

years of experience in global higher education, including a

decade as Editor of the prestigious Times Higher

Education (THE) World University Rankings and its

derivative analyses. He is an award-winning journalist, a

sought-after speaker and commentator and the creator of

the THE World Academic Summit.

Mr Michael CARUANA

Representing the

United Kingdom

Director


Mr Michael Caruana has more than 10 years of

educational and higher educational experience behind

him. He now acts as a Director in THE's Strategic

Solutions department, supporting Universities globally in

their performance and development strategies through

consultation and data analysis.



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Professor Jonathan

GRANT

Representing the

United Kingdom

Vice President/Vice-

Principal (Service)

King’s College London

Professor Jonathan Grant is the Vice-President/Vice-

Principal (Service) at King’s College London. Service has

been identified as one of five strategic priorities in King’s

Strategic Vision 2029, alongside Education, Research,

London and International. Service encapsulates King’s

commitment to society beyond education and research

and will enable us to realise our vision to make the world

a better place. In addition, Jonathan is the Assistant

Principal for Strategic Initiatives & Public Policy and

Professor of Public Policy in the Policy Institute at King’s.

Jonathan was Director of the Policy Institute between

February 2014 and 2017. He received his PhD from the

Faculty of Medicine, University of London and his B.Sc.

(Econ) from the London School of Economics.

Professor Liz

GRANT

Representing the

United Kingdom

Assistant Principal

University of Edinburgh

Professor Liz Grant, FRSE, FRCPEdin, MFPH is an

Assistant Principal at the University of Edinburgh and

Director of the Global Health Academy. She is responsible

for developing and supporting global health partnerships

with colleagues in low and middle income countries

(LMIC) communities, and for local and global advocacy

translating global health research into action. Liz holds a

chair in Global Health and Development. Professor Grant

has led the development of a suite of global health MSc

programmes, MOOCs and a Global Health PhD

programme specifically designed for LMIC students. She

is a co-director of the University's Global Compassion

Initiative developing work on the value base of the

Sustainable Development Goals, the science of

compassion, and the contribution that faith communities

make to the SDGs. She co-chairs the Chaplaincy

Committee and is also a member of the Scottish

Government NHS Global Citizenship Board.

Mr Michael LUBACZ

Representing the

United Kingdom

Director


Mr Michael Lubacz leads THE's global brand and strategic

solutions team. He works closely with institutions to help

raise their international profiles, build visibility around

their research excellence, and create identities that

differentiate their institutions in what is a competitive

global market.



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Professor Alpaslan

ÖZERDEM

Representing the

United Kingdom

Associate Pro-Vice

Chancellor for

Research

Coventry University

Professor Alpaslan Özerdem has engaged in the

development and implementation of strategy, policy

making and evaluation in the areas of humanitarianism

and post-conflict reconstruction with practical and

academic experience of nearly 20 years in conflict and

peace studies. He has extensive experience in

researching, advising, teaching, and publishing in the

politics of humanitarian interventions, role of faith in

conflict prevention, youth in peacebuilding, rising powers

in peace and conflict, disaster management, security

sector reform (SSR), reintegration of former combatants

and post-conflict state building. Professor Özerdem

teaches methods of conflict and political analysis in a

wide range of operational environments in the context of

war-to-peace transition, and also, the analysis of the

challenges faced in peacemaking, peacekeeping and

peace building processes, and approaches for designing

effective post-conflict reconstruction responses through

tailor-made policies and strategies.

Professor TRAN Diep

Tuan

Representing Viet Nam

President

University of Medicine

and Pharmacy of Ho

Chi Minh City

Professor Tran Diep Tuan Tran is the President of the

University of Medicine and Pharmacy at Ho Chi Minh City

(UMP), which is one of the two most influential medical

universities in Vietnam. Under his tenure, the UMP has

demonstrated its strong commitment for innovation and

quality improvement. Professor Tran received his M.D.

training at UMP (1989), and then specialized in pediatrics

(1990-1993) and later in pediatric neurology. He got his

PhD training at Tokyo University (1998-2003) and post-

doctoral training at National Institutes for Physiological

Sciences of Japan (2003) and at University of Michigan

(2003-2005). He was a fellow of Asian Youth Fellowship

(1997), Monbusho Fellowship (1998), John J. Bonica

Award (2002), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

(2003), International Brain Research Organization

(2003), WHO/NINDS International Neurological Science

Fellowship (2003), International Dean's Course in South

East Asia.

Dr TRAN Tien Khoa


Rector

International University

(Vietnam National

University Ho Chi Minh

City)

Dr Tran Tien Khoa, Rector of International University

(Vietnam National University HCMC) has more than 30-

year experience in the field of higher education from both

positions of university lecturer as well as senior

administrator at the Vietnam National University HCMC

and its member institutions, such as Deputy Director of

the Center for Educational Testing and Quality

Assessment, Chief of Office of the Vietnam National

University HCMC, and Vice-Rector of the International

University. After being appointed as Rector, Dr Tran now

focuses on achieving the university's high-set mission of

becoming a top researching institution with immerse

international outlook.



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Dr VO Huan


Deputy Head, Office of

External and Public

Relations

International University

(Vietnam National

University Ho Chi Minh

City)

Dr Vo Huan is Deputy Head, Office of External and Public

Relations as we as a Lecturer, School of Business at the

International University (Vietnam National University

HCMC).

Dr Natalia BICHURINA

Representing an

Organisation

President of the

Eurasian chapter

Erasmus Mundus

Students and Alumni

Association (EMA)

Dr Natalia Bichurina is President of the Eurasian chapter

of the Erasmus Mundus Association (EMA) and Senior

researcher at the University of Lausanne. She has studied

and worked in Russia, UK, France, Italy, Australia and

Switzerland. In 2016, she defended her Erasmus Mundus

Joint Doctorate "Interzones" dissertation in

Sociolinguistics and Cultural anthropology, at the

universities of Perpignan, Bergamo and Sydney. She

holds her Master's degrees in Linguistics, Letters and

Sociology (Saint Petersburg State University, French

University College, University of Saint Andrews, University

of Perpignan) and a degree in Cultural Anthropology

(European University at Saint Petersburg). She received

research funding from the Swiss Government, the Swiss

National Science Foundation, the French Government,

and the European Union. Serving as President of EMA in

Eurasia since 2015, she has been working on the

internationalisation of higher education, organising

around 40 events annually across Eurasia.

Mr Ramu DAMODARAN

Representing an

Organisation

Chief, United Nations

Academic Impact

(UNAI)

United Nations

Mr Ramu Damodaran is Deputy Director for Partnership

and Public Engagement in the United Nations Department

of Public Information's Outreach Division and is chief of

the United Nations Academic Impact initiative, which

aligns institutions of higher learning and research with

the objectives of the United Nations and the States and

peoples who constitute it. He is also the current secretary

of the United Nations Committee on Information. His

earlier posts with the Organization have included the

Departments of Peacekeeping and Special Political

Questions, as well as the Executive Office of the

Secretary-General. Mr Damodaran has been a member of

the Indian Foreign Service, where he was promoted to the

rank of Ambassador, and where he served as Executive

Assistant to the Prime Minister of India as well as in the

diplomatic missions in Moscow and to the United Nations,

and in a range of national governmental ministries.



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Dr Choltis DHIRATHITI

Representing an

Organisation

Executive Director

ASEAN University

Network (AUN)

Dr Choltis Dhirathiti is currently the Executive Director of

the ASEAN University Network (AUN), an inter-

governmental organization under the ASEAN Secretariat.

He is also a Lecturer in Politics at the Faculty of Political

Science at Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. Dr

Dhirathiti has been teaching normative political theory at

Chulalongkorn University since 1996. His academic

research interests include history of Western political

thought, philosophical idealism and political ethics. His

public services to the public sector in Thailand involve

thinking-skill trainings and public sector strategies. Dr

Dhirathiti has worked for ASEAN University Network (AUN)

since 2009 where he employs his experience on public

sector strategies, policy consultancy and human resource

development to the work of regional and multilateral

cooperation among universities in Southeast Asia.

Ms Marie-Céline

FALISSE

Representing an

Organisation

Liaison Officer

Erasmus Student

Network (ESN)

Ms Marie-Céline Falisse has been volunteering with the

Erasmus Student Network (ESN) since 2012, contributing

to enriching the international experiences of higher

education students through her active involvement at the

different levels of the organisation. Ms Falisse is one of

the authors of the ESNsurvey 2016, a large research

project on the international-friendliness of higher

education institutions. Her focus point in this research

was the reintegration of students after their mobility

experience abroad. She has an academic background in

languages and communication, and is currently pursuing

a Master’s degree in International Development Studies

part-time. She has been involved in youth organisations

from a young age and has experience with international

mobility programmes herself.

Professor Pam

FREDMAN

Representing an

Organisation

President for

International

Association of

Universities

International

Association of

Universities (IAU)

Professor Pam Fredman has a background as professor

in Neurochemistry at the University of Gothenburg,

Sweden. Over the years, she has been active in a large

number of scientific and scholarly contexts. Between

2006 and 2017 she served as Vice-Chancellor of the

University and before that she has held several leading

positions within the University, including Dean of the

faculty of medicine. As Vice-Chancellor she was from

2008 to 2014 the chairman of the Association of

Swedish Higher Education (SUHF) and was actively

involved in political and policy activities concerning Higher

education and Research on national, Nordic and

European level, mainly through European University

Association (EUA) as council member and member of the

EUA Research Policy Working group. She was appointed

by the Swedish government to investigate model for

governance and resource allocation to Higher Education

Institutions. Professor Fredman is currently the elected

president of the International Association of Universities

(IAU).



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Ms Katrina KOPPEL

Representing an

Organisation

Vice-President

European Students'

Union (ESU)

Ms Katrina Koppel is Vice President of the European

Students' Union (ESU) for the period 2018-2019, and

was previously a member of the Executive Committee of

ESU. She is a student and civil society activist from

Estonia having participated for over 7 years in the

movement. Her research background is in political

communication, and more specifically on populism. Ms

Koppel also has a long-standing experience in quality

assurance of education; having served for two years in

the Quality Assessment council of Higher Education at the

Estonian Quality Agency for Higher and Vocational

Education (EKKA). During her time there, she participated

in multiple trainings both as participant and trainer for

several topics such as ESG's, feedback mechanisms, and

recruitment. She also has experience with training groups

on creating strategies, action plans and plans of work.

Ms Piyapat KULTANAN

Representing an

Organisation

Senior Programme

Officer

ASEAN University

Network (AUN)

Ms Piyapat Kultanan is currently Senior Programme

Officer at the ASEAN University Network (AUN). Her main

areas involve ASEAN affairs and ASEAN external relations

as well as AUN Thematic Networks that involve activities

and cooperation in specialized academic fields in

collaboration with higher education institutions and

partners in ASEAN and beyond in a number of education

fields including engineering, business and economics,

disability and public policy, health promotion, ASEAN

economic community building, university and community

engagements, and ecological education for

environmental protection.

Ms Lucia LOPOSOVA

Representing an

Organisation

Teaching Staff, Vice-

President &

Partnerships Director

The University of Hong

Kong, Erasmus Mundus

Association (EMA)

Ms Lucia Loposova is a graduate of the Erasmus Mundus

master programme. She has lived in 6 different countries,

including Myanmar, and is currently based in Hong Kong

(SAR China) where she works for The University of Hong

Kong, co-teaching courses on social entrepreneurship,

business ethics and microbusiness consulting in

developing economies. Her early career revolved around

marketing and business while she was also actively

volunteering for the Erasmus Mundus Association (EMA)

which focuses on the issues of access and quality of

higher education, inclusion, diversity and sustainability.

She is now serving as EMA's Vice-President 2017-2019

and Director of Partnerships of the organisation. She

believes in education being fundamental in transforming

our society to a more equitable and just place where no

one is left behind.



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Mr Giorgio MARINONI

Representing an

Organisation

Manager for HE and

Internationalization

policy and projects

International

Association of

Universities (IAU)

Mr Giorgio Marinoni holds the position of Manager, HE

and Internationalization policy and projects at the

International Association of Universities (IAU) since

February 2015. Among his specific responsibilities are

research on the latest trends on internationalization and

coordination of advisory services to higher education

institutions (HEIs), individuals working at HEIs and

national governments and organisations. Before his

current position at IAU, Mr Marinoni has gained expertise

most specifically in the field of internationalization and in

Higher Education policy and reforms, especially but not

exclusively, at the European level. He has experience in

the coordination of multilateral projects at the

international level, involving different higher education

stakeholders as well as public and private HEIs, networks

of HEIs, student associations, national and regional

governments.

Mr M. Miandy

MUNUSAMY

Representing an

Organisation

Officer

ASEM Education

Secretariat

Mr M.Miandy Munusamy is an Administrative and

Diplomatic Officer of the Public Service Department,

Malaysia. He joined the Policy Coordination and

International Division, Ministry of Higher Education

Malaysia (MOHE) in April 2009 as a desk officer for

multilateral cooperation. In September 2017, he started

his Doctorate study at Asia-Europe Institute, University of

Malaya. His research is on the Internationalisation of

Higher Education in Malaysia and The ASEM Education

Process. Currently, he is attached to the ASEM Education

Secretariat (AES) Belgium to collect data for his PhD study

with ASEM Education Senior Officials and stakeholders as

well as assist the daily task of the AES.

Prof Michael MURPHY

Representing an

Organisation

President-Elect

European University

Association (EUA)

Prof Michael Murphy is President-Elect of the European

University Association. A medical graduate of University

College Cork (UCC) in Ireland, he undertook doctoral

research at The Royal Postgraduate School in London

prior to faculty positions at The University of Chicago.

Following return to Ireland in 1992 he served sequentially

as Professor of Clinical Pharmacology, Dean of Medicine

and from 2007-17 President of University College Cork.

As President, he supported the student leaders in shaping

a comprehensive Sustainability agenda such that UCC

became the first university in the world to be awarded the

Green Flag by the Federation for Environmental

Education, the first certified ISO50001 compliant

university and the first in Europe awarded gold star rating

by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability

in Education (AASHE). Murphy's academic expertise has

been in the clinical pharmacology of cardiovascular

medicines. He has served on EUA Board since 2017.



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Mr Robert NAPIER

Representing an

Organisation

Vice-President

European Students'

Union (ESU)

Mr Robert Napier is the Vice President of the European

Students' Union (ESU). He holds a Bachelor of Laws

(Hons.) and a Master of Advocacy from the University of

Malta. Mr Napier has a passion for Human Rights and is

very keen on ensuring the understanding and

implementation of the Social Dimension within the Higher

Education area. Mr Napier has been involved in the

student movement for more than four years and has

served on the National Students' Council in Malta as

Social Policy Commissioner, Secretary General and

President. At ESU, his main areas of work are social

dimension (including Sustainable Development Goals),

Bologna Follow-Up Group (BFUG), cooperation with other

organisations: Council of Europe (CoE), Eurostudent, E4

group (ENQA, EURASHE, ESU and EUA), UNESCO as well

as the European Education Area (EEA) Student Card.

Dr Tibor NAVRACSICS

Representing an

Organisation

European

Commissioner for

Education, Youth, Sport

and Culture

European Commission

Dr Tibor Navracsics serves as the Commissioner of

Education, Culture, Youth and Sport since 2014. He

received his Law degree from the Loránd Eötvös

University School of Law and Political Sciences in

Budapest in 1990. He taught as a Senior Lecturer at

Loránd Eötvös University, Faculty of Law and Political

Sciences, from 1997 to 1999. He obtained his PhD

degree in Political Science from Loránd Eötvös University

in 1999 following the approval of his dissertation

“European Domestic Politics: Political Science Analysis of

the European Union”. Dr Navracsics served in the Prime

Minister’s Office as Head of Department from 1998 to

2002. Prior to his current position, he also held positions

as Member of Parliament, Deputy Prime Minister,

Minister of Public Administration and Justice and Minister

of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

Ms Naparat

PHIRAWATTANAKUL

Representing an

Organisation

Senior Programme

Officer

ASEAN University

Network

Ms Naparat Phirawattanakul is currently a Senior

Programme Officer at the ASEAN University Network

(AUN). Her main responsibilities are in the areas of

intergovernmental cooperation that directly serves the

ASEAN and ASEAN+3 Education Ministers Meeting and

the Senior Officials Meeting on Education. She is in

charge of several projects including ASEAN External

Relations and Academic Cooperation, AUN Thematic

Networks, AUN Youth Mobility and the AUN Internship

Programme. Assoc. Professor Phirawattana is also an

occasional special lecturer at universities in Thailand.



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Mr João PINTO

Representing an

Organisation

President

Erasmus Student

Network (ESN)

Mr João Pinto is a European citizen born in Lisbon one

year after the creation of the Erasmus Programme.

Having always been interested in global challenges, Mr

Pinto holds an MSc in International Relations from both

the University of Coimbra in Portugal and Sciences Po

Bordeaux in France. In these institutions he has

researched on how federal systems work, having written

a thesis on the internal dynamics of the Russian

Federation. Currently, he is a PhD candidate studying the

global actorness of the European Union, especially

towards Brazil and South America. After working in the

European Research Council (European Commission), Mr

Pinto who is the President of Erasmus Student Network is

particularly interested in the role international students

can have in making societies more inclusive and resilient.

Dr Chantavit

SUJATANOND

Representing an

Organisation

Centre Director

SEAMEO Regional

Centre for Higher

Education and

Development (SEAMEO

RIHED)

Dr Chantavit Sujatanond holds a Bachelor of Arts' degree

in English and Public Administration, a Masters' degree in

Linguistics and PhD in Education Administration as well

as an ED.S in Curriculum Development & Instruction from

Michigan State University, USA. She also received the

Elaine K. Komo Award of the East-West Center, Hawaii,

for outstanding accomplishments in strengthening

internationalisation. Dr Sujatanond is currently the Centre

Director of the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education

Organization Regional Center for Higher Education and

Development (SEAMEO RIHED) and previously served as

Deputy Director (Administration and Communication) of

the SEAMEO Secretariat. She held the position of Deputy

Secretary-General of the Office of the Higher Education

Commission (OHEC), Ministry of Education, Thailand. In

her administerial capacities, she has represented

Thailand in various regional and international platforms

for intergovernmental cooperation as well as bilateral and

multilateral cooperation.

Dr Christopher

TREMEWAN

Representing an

Organisation

Secretary General

Association of Pacific

Rim Univeristies (APRU)

Dr Christopher Tremewan was elected 4th Secretary

General of the Association of Pacific Rim Universities and

took up the role in 2011. Before heading the APRU

International Secretariat, he was the Vice-President/Pro

Vice-Chancellor (International) of the University of

Auckland, New Zealand. He holds Bachelor's and

Master's degrees in social anthropology from the

University of Auckland, a Master's degree in Public

Administration from Harvard University, and a PhD in

political science (on Southeast Asian politics) from the

University of Canterbury. He was elected a senior

associate member of St. Antony's College, Oxford

University, in 1991 from where he published the book

"The Political Economy of Social Control in Singapore"

(Macmillan and St Martin's Press, 1994, reprinted 1996).

He was a visiting fellow at Georgetown University in

Washington, D.C. in 2003 and a visiting professor at

Peking University in 2007 - 2008.



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Mr David URBAN

Representing an

Organisation

Coordinator

ASEM Education

Secretariat

Mr David Urban was born in Frankfurt/Main, Germany

where he accomplished his secondary education. After

graduating at the Catholic university of Mons (Belgium) in

political and administrative sciences, he was working for

several cultural institutions in the French Community of

Belgium and was appointed member of numerous

committees and boards. In 2009, he joined the

UCLouvain and worked as a research assistant on higher

education policies, focusing on transformation processes

of higher education landscapes in Europe since the

Bologna process. He has also been lecturing on public

management and education policies at the University of

Picardie Jules Verne and the UCLouvain-Mons. Since

2017, he is co-coordinator of the ASEM Education

Secretariat, representing the Wallonia-Brussels

Federation of Belgium.

Dr Hilligje VAN'T LAND

Representing an

Organisation

Secretary General

International

Association of

Universities (IAU)

Dr Hilligje van't Land is the Secretary-General of the

International Association of Universities (IAU), since

2017. She serves the global higher education community

through trends analysis, advisory services, peer learning

and advocacy. Her main areas of expertise include:

Internationalization, with focus on intercultural learning

and dialogue; Doctoral education in Africa; Sustainable

development. She holds a PhD in comparative

francophone literatures from Groningen University (RUG),

completed a post doc at Laval University, and has worked

in international higher education over 23 years, including

as lecturer and researcher at RUG, Univ Laval and

Université d'Avignon, or as Academic Director, Institute for

American Universities, in Avignon. She joined the IAU in

2002. Founded in 1950, under the auspices of UNESCO,

IAU is the leading global association of higher education

institutions and organisations from around the world. It

counts 650 Members from 120+ countries.

Ms Ophélie

VERCHERAND CLAVIER

Representing an

Organisation

Trainee

ASEM Education

Secretariat

Ms Ophelie Vercherand Clavier is a French researcher in

training and currently in Master's degree year 2 in

Education Policy Planning at the University of Amiens. She

is currently doing an internship in ASEM Education

secretariat.



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Dr Libing WANG

Representing an

Organisation

Senior Programme

Specialist in Higher

Education, Chief of

Section for Educational

Innovations and Skills

Development (EISD)

UNESCO Bangkok

Dr Libing Wang is currently Chief of Section for

Educational Innovations and Skills Development (EISD)

and Senior Programme Specialist in Higher Education,

based at UNESCO Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for

Education,Bangkok,Thailand. His areas of responsibility

with UNESCO cover higher education, teacher education,

ICT in education, TVET, ESD, and research and foresight

in Asia and the Pacific region. Prior to joining UNESCO, he

was a Professor of Comparative Education at Zhejiang

University, People’s Republic of China. He was secretary

of the Global University Network for Innovation: Asia and

the Pacific (GUNI-AP) from 2002 to 2012. Mr Wang got

his doctoral degree in Comparative Education in 1994 at

Hangzhou University, People’s Republic of China. He was

a visiting fellow at the University of Sussex and University

of Warwick in the United Kingdom in the early and late

1990s. He published widely in the areas of comparative

education, higher education policies, and teacher

education.

Ms Lesley WILSON

Representing an

Organisation

Secretary General

European University

Association (EUA)

Ms Lesley Wilson was educated at the Universities of

Glasgow and Strasbourg and also has an honorary

doctorate from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie in

Paris. She joined the European University Association

(EUA) at its creation in 2001 and took over as Secretary

General in 2002. Prior to joining the EUA she held a

number of senior posts in higher education and research

management in various European and international

organisations including the European Commission, where

she was Director of Strategic Planning, Monitoring and

Evaluation at the European Training Foundation in Turin

(1999-2001), and UNESCO where she was Director of

their European Centre for Higher Education, based in

Bucharest, from 1995 to 1999. Before that she was Head

of Policy at the European Science Foundation and also

contributed to the development of EU education

programmes through involvement in the launch phase of

ERASMUS and as of 1990 as the Director of the newly

established EC TEMPUS Office in Brussels.

Dr Eden Yi-Teng WOON


President

Asian Institute of

Technology

Dr Eden Yi-Teng Woon received his Bachelor's degree

from the University of Iowa and his MA, MS, and PhD

degrees, all in Mathematics, from the University of

Washington in Seattle. He is also a graduate of the

Armed Forces Staff College in Norfolk, VA, and the

National War College in Washington, DC. He is a Justice

of Peace in Hong Kong and a member of the Council on

Foreign Relations in New York. Dr Woon assumed the

position of President of Asian Institute of Technology (AIT)

in 2018. He also serves as Special Advisor to the Shaw

Foundation in Hong Kong. The Shaw Foundation has

funded education projects in Greater China and

elsewhere for over 30 years, and is the sponsor of the

world-renowned prestigious Shaw Prize in Mathematical

Sciences, Life Science and Medicine, and Astronomy. He

was most recently the Vice Chairman of Alba Group Asia.

Alba Group, based in Berlin, is one of the world's leading

environmental engineering and services companies.



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Ms Thérèse ZHANG

Representing an

Organisation

Deputy Director, Higher

Education Policy Unit

European University

Association (EUA)

Ms Thérèse Zhang is the Deputy Director for Higher

Education Policy at the European University Association

(EUA). She works on topics related to learning and

teaching, European policy developments in higher

education, and global relations with other regions of the

world. She has been active in higher education

policy/management and, more generally, project

management in education and culture, for over fifteen

years. When Ms Zhang first joined EUA in 2008, she

focused on quality management and institutional

development, with responsibilities in various projects and

in EUA's Institutional Evaluation Programme. As a Project

Manager at the Belgian French-speaking quality

assurance agency, she also coordinated evaluations and

contributed to developing evaluation methodologies. Her

earlier experience includes serving as a French teacher

for several years. Ms Zhang is a graduate in Romance

Philology and in European Studies, and was trained in

Belgium, Italy, and the United States.

Ms Leila CELLERIER

Organisers

Project Officer,

Education Department

Asia-Europe Foundation

(ASEF)

Ms Leïla Cellerier is a Swiss citizen who studied societal

sciences in Geneva and Montreal. She graduated from

the University of Geneva with a bachelor in Geography

and Environmental Science and a master in

Socioeconomics. She joined the Education Department in

September 2018 where she is assisting with upcoming

projects. Prior to that, she already spent a total of one

year in the region through two internships, one at

Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) Office for Regional

Cooperation in Asia on political feminism, based in

Singapore, one at UN Women Asia and the Pacific in

Communications and Strategic Partnerships Department,

based in Bangkok. Deeply interested in Asian cultures as

well as international relations and cooperation, she

worked more specifically on gender issues in relation to

migration, social movements and sustainable

development.

Mr Andy CHAN

Organisers

Project Officer,



(ASEF)

Mr Andy Chan is a Singaporean who recently graduated

from Singapore Institute of Management with a Bachelors

(Hons) of Science in International Relations. He formally

joined ASEF in December 2018 after completing his

internship in October 2018. He supports projects under

the Education Department's Youth Programme—ASEF

Young Leaders Summit, ASEF Summer University, and

Model ASEM. Prior to joining ASEF, Andy was an intern at

the US Embassy (Singapore), where he covered issues

relating to Human Rights and Human Trafficking with the

Economic/Political Section. In 2012, he was a Sovereign

Risk intern with DBS Bank where he assisted the

department in monitoring credit ratings and producing

reports. Outside of working hours, Andy spends his time

volunteering at community centres and reading. His

favourite genres are biography and history.



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Mr Ross CHEUNG

Organisers

Project Executive,



(ASEF)

Mr Ross Cheung joined the Education Department in

January 2018. Prior to joining ASEF, Ross participated in

the Model ASEM in 2012 and ASEFYLS in 2015. He first

started his career in corporate financing and then

research in social entrepreneurship. He completed

research projects on the topics of service leadership,

voiceless groups, and university graduate

entrepreneurship in Hong Kong. Besides, he volunteered

at the Beijing Olympic Games, provided tour in Shanghai

World Expo, and served at the International House of The

Chinese University of Hong Kong. Ross obtained his

Bachelor's degree at Hong Kong Baptist University in

Sociology and China Studies. He is currently a Master’s

student of the Erasmus Mundus Program in Global

Studies, first in University of Vienna (Austria), then in

Macquarie University (Australia), and he looks forward to

completing his Master thesis in Leipzig University

(Germany).

Dr Alexandru Mihai

GHIGIU


Vice Rector


Political Studies and

Public Administration

(SNSPA)

Dr Alexandru Mihai Ghigiu was Senior Advisor to the

Romanian Minister of National Education (2012-2014,

2016) and Deputy Minister in the General Secretariat of

the Romanian Government (2017). Dr Ghigiu holds a PhD

in Political Science and attended several training courses

at École Nationale d’Administration – ENA, Paris,

Universidad Complutense, Madrid, ETH, Zurich or

Kennedy School, Harvard University, Cambridge (SUA).

He published articles on topics related to EU foreign

policy, with focus on EU – Latin American relations, in

both national and international academic journals.

Ms Leonie NAGARAJAN

Organisers

Director, Education

Department


(ASEF)

Ms Leonie Nagarajan has been working in the field of

international relations for over 15 years, with a focus on

Education Diplomacy since 2014. With an education

programme portfolio that covers 51 countries across Asia

and Europe, her work addresses education policies,

higher education cooperation, activities in the field of

lifelong learning as well as experiential learning and skills

development for young people. As Chief of Staff, Leonie

also advised and supported Asian and European ASEF

Executive Directors in the planning and implementation of

ASEF’s long-range strategy, programmes and operations.

Prior to joining ASEF, Leonie worked in Public Affairs and

Communication for cultural institutions. Having studied in

Germany, with a stint at Haskoli Reykjavik, Iceland, she

received her Master's degree in Communication Sciences

with minors in cultural and political sciences from the

Free University and Humboldt University in Berlin.



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Professor Remus

PRICOPIE


Rector


Political Studies and

Public Administration

(SNSPA)

Professor Remus Pricopie is professor and Rector of the

National University of Political Studies and Public

Administration (SNSPA), Bucharest, since March 2012.

From December 2012 to December 2014 he served as

Minister of Education and Research. His activity within

the Romanian Ministry began in 1996, and includes

positions such as Spokesperson, Director, Secretary

General and Deputy Minister (Secretary of State) for

Higher Education, International Relations and Teacher

Training. Also, he has extensively worked / collaborated

with many international organizations – UNESCO, UNICEF,

EU, OECD, World Bank, United Nation University, Agence

Universitaire de la Francophonie – and ministries of

education / higher education and research from more

than 100 countries. Prof. Pricopie holds a PhD in Political

Science at the SNSPA and he is a Fulbright New Century

Scholar alumnus, a World Academy of Art and Science

Fellow, a member of the Romanian Chapter of the Club of

Rome, and a member of the Atlantis Group. His

educational background includes a rich international

experience, being educated and trained in five countries

and nine higher education institutions, especially in the

United States of America and European Union.

Ms Nanthini

SAMBANTHAN

Organisers

Intern, Education

Department


(ASEF)

Ms Nanthini Sambanthan is a Singaporean citizen who

studied International Relations in Australia. She

graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Politics and Gender

Studies) from La Trobe University and a Masters in

International Relations (International Security) from the

University of Melbourne. After spending several years in

Australia during which she volunteered with organisations

such as RedR Australia, she has just moved back to

Singapore. She joined ASEF as an intern in February

2019 and is supporting the Education department in their

upcoming projects. Prior to this, she had formerly

interned at the Association of Women for Action and

Research (AWARE) in Singapore, and worked on projects

such as their Aim for Zero campaign, a project which

promotes zero tolerance for sexual harassment. She also

writes for the Young Diplomats Society as their Regional

Content Writer for Southeast Asia and has contributed

articles related to the security architecture of the region.

Deeply interested in ASEAN/EU relations, she has worked

more specifically on the roles of regional organisations in

the furthering of multilateralism.



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Ms Reka TOZSA

Organisers

Project Manager,



(ASEF)

Ms Reka Tozsa, a Hungarian national, joined ASEF's

Education Department in September 2017. Reka is

responsible for the ASEF Education Policy Programme

projects, including the ASEF Rectors' Conference and

Students' Forum. Prior to joining ASEF, Reka worked as

the Head of International Office at the National University

of Public Service in Hungary. Her role was to design and

implement the international mobility scheme of the

university, to plan joint project with strategic partners,

and to build the international brand of the university.

Reka had been working as a civil servant before, at the

National Institution of Public Administration and the

Ministry of Human Resources, State Secretariat for Higher

Education and Science Policy. Reka obtained her first

degree at the Corvinus University of Budapest in Public

Administration, and successfully completed the Master in

Public Administration program at the National University

of Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy.

Mr Martin VIDANES

Organisers

Project Executive,



(ASEF)

Mr Martin Vidanes is a Filipino multimedia designer. He

joined ASEF in January 2019 and brings with him his

experience in design and marketing from a variety of

industries and fields. He is well versed in both print and

digital work, but specialises in graphic and motion design

as well as video editing. Prior to joining ASEF, Martin was

employed by two multi-national companies over a span of

5 years. He has also worked in the editing room of several

award-winning independent Filipino films either as an

assistant editor or a colourist. As a consultant, he has

worked on several projects with organisations such as the

Bank of the Philippine Islands, Nickelodeon, The Asia

Foundation, The Office of (Ret.) Chief Justice Artemio V.

Panganiban, and Accord, inc. Martin is a graduate of the

University of the Philippines — Diliman with a BA in Art

Studies (Interdisciplinary).



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Ambassador Karsten

WARNECKE

Organisers

Executive Director


(ASEF)

Ambassador Karsten Warnecke is the 7th Executive

Director of the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF) in charge

of the management and administration of the

organisation, the implementation of its programmes and

policies, and representing the organisation. He joined

ASEF as the 6th Deputy Executive Director in August

2012. Before joining ASEF, Ambassador Warnecke dealt

mainly with Germany’s and the EU’s involvement in

ASEAN and in the ASEM Process as part of his portfolio as

Counselor at the German Federal Foreign Office in Berlin,

where he served as Deputy Head of Division for Regional

Organizations and Cooperation in Asia-Pacific. A

seasoned career diplomat with over 25 years of

experience, including almost 20 years with Asia,

Ambassador Warnecke is adept at working in cross-

cultural settings and in bringing people together from

diverse backgrounds. Previous postings have seen him

serve in the German Consulates-General in New York,

USA, and Chennai, India, as well as the German Embassy

in Singapore. Ambassador Warnecke holds an M.A. in

International Relations from the School of Advanced

International Studies (SAIS) of the Johns Hopkins

University in Washington, D.C., after studying Political

Science at the Free University in Berlin.

Mr Sean LEE

Media Team

Photographer

Sean Lee Photography

Mr Sean Lee grew up in Singapore. His first body of work

was Shauna, made between 2007 and 2009. This work

was nominated for the Prix Découverte on the 40th

anniversary of Arles Photography Festival. Since then,

Sean has gone on to make other stories. His most recent

work, Two People, received the 2011 ICON de Martell

Cordon Bleu award. Much of Sean‘s work can be found in

the collection of the Singapore Art Museum, as well as in

the Sandor Family Collection. Sean‘s first book, Shauna,

was released in September 2014. It was collected by the

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) Library.

Ms Caroline PAUL

KANJOOKARAN

Media Team

Young Reporter

European Youth Press

Ms Caroline Paul Kanjookaran is a Masters student of

Sustainability, Society and Environment at Christian-

Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany. The study program

analyses society's sustainable development issues and

empowers students to develop strategies for a

sustainable future. As a journalist, Ms Kanjookaran took

up this program to further develop her leadership

capabilities and to cement her commitment to

contributing to sustainable development and social

innovation. As part of her studies, she founded a

Happiness Project and later, a food sustainability

network, that aims to develop tools, models and

databases to benchmark the global food supply chain

from farm to fork. She is currently involved in a Science

Communications project at her university, which adopts a

solutions-journalism approach to not only address the

complex societal challenges, but also to highlight

solutions to these issues, in order to create a better

future for all.



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Ms Nicole POP

Media Team

Young Reporter


Ms Nicole Pop is currently a LL.M candidate at Maastricht

University's Faculty of Law, with a strong focus on

European External Relations Law. During her Bachelor in

European Studies in Maastricht, she served as the

Secretary-General and Conference Manager of the

European Model United Nations 2017, an international

conference bringing together over 500 enthusiastic

students to debate current global challenges. The Model

UN world has drawn her attention to international politics

and law, resulting in the organization and execution of

multiple smaller conferences and serving in various roles.

Her interests lay in the field of external relations law,

foreign policy analysis and implementation and

evaluation of the EU's Common Foreign and Security

Policy.

Mr Heiko SEIBEL

Media Team

Videographer,

photographer

Heiko Seibel

Photography

Mr Heiko Seibel has been working as a freelance

photographer since 2002. He has studied Journalism and

Communication Science at the University of Muenster,

Germany and Integrated Design at the University of Fine

Arts Bremen. Heiko creates visual, video and photography

concepts for businesses and magazines and develops his

own artistic projects. Photography shall serve more than a

decorative element to a text; it follows its own narrative

and message. For his illustration and interpretation of

movements in Olympic sport disciplines, he received the

Art Directors Club Award in 2009. The series was

published in the ZEIT Magazine.

Ms Patricia SENGE

Media Team

Young Reporter


Ms Patricia Senge holds a Bachelor's degree in European

Studies from Maastricht University. Thereafter, she

interned at the Education Department of ASEF from

September to December 2018. Now she is a political

trainee at the German Permanent Mission to the Human

Rights Council of the United Nations in Geneva,

Switzerland before pursuing her Master's degree in

European Law. Ms Senge is the project coordinator of

Orange Magazine, the magazine of the European Youth

Press. In her free time she enjoys practicing journalism

for various youth online newspapers and enjoys hiking,

diving and playing Volleyball.



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VISUAL CONCEPT The United Nations General Assembly identified 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

that encompass many aspects of contemporary society. The goals serve as globally-

recognised standards that call upon stakeholders across all sectors, including education,

to implement them by 2030. Achieving the SDGs, however, is a complex interplay that

requires both strategic thinking as well as creative and innovative methods. Solving a

Rubik’s cube - one of the most famous educational toys ever - resembles this multifaceted

process: it takes not only analytical skills and imagination but also hands-on action in

solving the puzzle to get all the colours, sides and patterns right within the given time. Like

the pieces in a Rubik’s cube, the SDGs are interconnected and any decision to move

towards a certain direction has an impact on the overall pattern and outcome. The 7th

ASEF Rector’s Conference and Students’ Forum (ARC7) is the platform for students,

rectors, policy-makers and education ministers to showcase the interdisciplinary role of

higher education in this serious game of developing and sustaining our societies. While the

optimal solution may not be the easiest nor the quickest, we know we are moving the

pieces in the right order by taking turns in drafting policy recommendations and making

commitments towards the SGDs at ARC7.

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